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Klingbeil, David A.; Van Norman, Ethan R.; Nelson, Peter M.; Birr, Chris – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2018
Several states have changed their statewide achievement tests over the past 5 years. These changes may pose difficulties for educators tasked with identifying students in need of additional support. This study evaluated the stability of decision-making accuracy estimates across changes to the statewide achievement test. We analyzed extant data…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Achievement Tests, State Programs, Decision Making
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Public Schools. – 1976
Florida's Statewide Assessment Program of the State Department of Education has been involved in a major effort to develop adequate strategies for releasing and publishing assessment scores for schools. One dimension of this effort has been the development of predicted or "adjusted" scores. These scores compare a school to other similar…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1972
The 1969-70 report on California's testing program provides information on the achievement scores of students in grades one, two, three, six, and twelve. The report is divided into three parts: (1) a statewide analysis and summary--an introduction to the report which begins with a summary of the findings; (2) percentile ranks and normalized…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Low Achievement, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables
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Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Public Schools. – 1977
The Statewide Assessment Program of the Florida State Department of Education is responsible for measuring student achievement and disseminating the assessment results. One dimension of this effort has been the development of predicted or adjusted school scores. These scores are based on several factors which are related to achievement. Among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Harpole, Sandra; Gifford, Vernon – 1985
This study was conducted to relate personal, cognitive, and school variables to physics achievement. The sample consisted of 435 students participating in the 1985 Mississippi State University Annual Physics Competition. The Student Background Questionnaire was planned and developed to collect information on each variable examined. The predictor…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, High Schools, Instructional Improvement, Performance Factors
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1973
Achievement test scores and measures of district and pupil characteristics were analyzed for all California school districts. Achievement test scores were found to be highly correlated among each other. The best single predictor of achievement scores was a measure of family poverty. Scholastic aptitude scores were not used as predictors.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Economic Status, Performance Factors
Bobbett, Gordon C.; French, Russell L. – 1993
As the latest in a series of studies analyzing the data reported on Tennessee's school district report cards, this paper focuses on finding a common statistical treatment to examine the impact of predictor variables on dependent variables. Investigations of the 1988-89 report card data explored the relationships among eight school district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Outcomes of Education
Henderson, Susan J.; Orr, Scott P. – 1989
A method was developed for identifying students who may be at high risk for failing the State Board Licensing Examination (SBE) for registered nurses. The subjects used in developing prediction equations included 50 students who graduated from the nursing program at Saint Joseph's College (SJC) in North Windham (Maine) during the years 1983-84.…
Descriptors: Certification, College Students, Equations (Mathematics), Failure
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – 1992
The relationships among factors reported on a set of report cards developed for local school districts in Tennessee were studied. The analysis offers information about how selected factors relate to student outcome. Each year, Tennessee's State Board of Education produces a report card on each school district using data provided by the district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Wohlferd, Gerald – 1969
The Quality Measurement Project was established in 1956 by the New York State Education Department to determine the feasibility of measuring quality differences between schools and of identifying variables related to these differences. In the latest revision of the project, begun in 1964, 99 representative school systems, excluding the New York…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Grade Equivalent Scores
Bostic, Jeff Q.; And Others – 1987
The public schools reform movement has led to a proliferation of minimum competency testing programs by states. At the 11th/12th grade level, the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS), mandated by Texas House Bill 72, is an exit exam, divided into two sections which measure minimum competencies in math and language skills.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Early Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Exit Examinations