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Download full textSanderson, Geoffrey T. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2015
Beginning in 2006, Maryland has led the nation as the state with the highest percentage of graduates who earned one or more Advanced Placement (AP) exam scores of 3 or higher. Students in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) Class of 2014 continued to outperform students in the state of Maryland on AP examinations based on AP…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, Equivalency Tests, High School Graduates
Sanderson, Geoffrey T. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2014
Beginning in 2006, Maryland has led the nation as the state with the highest percentage of graduates who earned one or more Advanced Placement (AP) exam scores of 3 or higher. Students in the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Class of 2013 continued to outperform students in the state of Maryland and the nation on AP examinations, based on…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, Equivalency Tests, High School Graduates
Marks, Susan F. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2013
Students in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) Class of 2012 continued to outperform Maryland and the nation on Advanced Placement (AP) examinations based on the "AP Report to the Nation" released by the College Board on February 20, 2013. In 2012, 67.3 percent of MCPS graduates took one or more AP exams. A striking…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, Equivalency Tests, High School Graduates
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Direct linkHuff, Kristen; Steinberg, Linda; Matts, Thomas – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
The cornerstone of evidence-centered assessment design (ECD) is an evidentiary argument that requires that each target of measurement (e.g., learning goal) for an assessment be expressed as a "claim" to be made about an examinee that is relevant to the specific purpose and audience(s) for the assessment. The "observable evidence" required to…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equivalency Tests, Evidence, Test Construction
Hendrickson, Amy; Huff, Kristen; Luecht, Richard – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
Evidence-centered assessment design (ECD) explicates a transparent evidentiary argument to warrant the inferences we make from student test performance. This article describes how the vehicles for gathering student evidence--task models and test specifications--are developed. Task models, which are the basis for item development, flow directly…
Descriptors: Evidence, Test Construction, Measurement, Classification
Plake, Barbara S.; Huff, Kristen; Reshetar, Rosemary – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
In many large-scale assessment programs, achievement level descriptors (ALDs) provide a critical role in communicating what scores on the assessment mean and in interpreting what examinees know and are able to do based on their test performance. Based on their test performance, examinees are often classified into performance categories. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Test Construction, Measurement, Standard Setting
