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Download full textDavison, Mark L.; And Others – 1995
This paper describes a methodology, called Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS), designed to identify major patterns of variables and to study the relationships into which those patterns enter. Patterns of variables are here called profiles. The PAMS procedure has been adapted to characteristics of the National Assessment of…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Mathematics Instruction, Multidimensional Scaling, National Surveys
Walberg, Herbert J. – 1985
The value of statistical research depends on valid comparisons which can usefully influence educational policy. Educational research needs to extend the measures of learning (such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress) through nationally-calibrated absolute measures and through computer-assisted and adaptive testing. Direct sampling…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
