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Northwest Evaluation Association, 2015
Recently, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) released a document that established initial performance levels and the associated threshold scale scores for the Smarter Balanced assessment. The report included estimated percentages of students expected to perform at each of the four performance levels, reported by grade…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Standard Setting (Scoring), Pretesting, Cutting Scores
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Federal Education Opportunity Programs. – 1976
An integral part of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act programs has been the evaluation of these programs in terms of attainment of increments of gain in reading and mathematics. One of the most widely used methods of analyzing pre and post test norm referenced data has been the six-step historical regression procedure. This…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Equivalent Scores
Diamond, Esther E. – 1984
The problem of measuring growth across the target grade and, typically, the two adjacent grades, concerns most developers of standardized, norm-referenced achievement tests, particularly at the item selection stage. Opinion is divided on whether to retain or drop items that do not get easier from grade to grade. The controversy has focused on…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Difficulty Level
Conklin, Jon – 1978
It is unsafe to estimate achievement test norms for fall testing by linear interpolation between norms for the previous spring testing and norms for the following spring. Second grade students were tested in reading and arithmetic in the fall and in the spring to provide pre-test and post-test data for evaluation of academic growth. Three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis
Echternacht, Gary – 1979
The role that measurement error plays in the regression effect is discussed with particular reference to the RMC models for evaluating the effects of Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I programs. The norm referenced evaluation model assumes a theory of growth where the relative ranking of students remains the same from pretest to posttest…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Hubert, John A. – 1978
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I Evaluation and Reporting System is a method for giving a federally funded project in reading or math an overall score on its cognitive effectiveness. This System introduced the Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE) as an aid in aggregating Title I program scores across states and nationwide regardless of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Control Groups
Faddis, Bonnie J.; And Others – 1979
Ninth grade Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I evaluation results in reading and English-writing projects were compared, using the RMC Model A with local empirical norms, Model A with national interpolated norms, and Model B. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS)--Total Reading and Total Language subtests--were administered…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Control Groups