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Heh, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The current study examined the validation and alignment of the PASA-Science by determining whether the alternate science assessment anchors linked to the regular education science anchors; whether the PASA-Science assessment items are science; whether the PASA-Science assessment items linked to the alternate science eligible content, and what…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Special Education, Science Education, Science Tests
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May, Henry – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2006
In this article, a new method is presented and implemented for deriving a scale of socioeconomic status (SES) from international survey data using a multilevel Bayesian item response theory (IRT) model. The proposed model incorporates both international anchor items and nation-specific items and is able to (a) produce student family SES scores…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Bayesian Statistics, Socioeconomic Status, Scaling