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Flowers, Claudia P.; Oshima, T. C. – 1994
This study was patterned after a previous study by Skaggs and Lissitz (1992) in which inconsistency of differential item functioning (DIF) was reported across test administrations. They suggested multidimensionality of test data as one possible reason for inconsistency. Therefore, in this study, DIF indices which were developed recently with a…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Item Bias, Mathematics, Reliability
Gyagenda, Ismail S.; Engelhard, George, Jr. – 1998
The purpose of this study was to examine rater, domain, and gender influences on the assessed quality of student writing using weighted and unweighted scores. Twenty rates were randomly selected from a group of 87 operational raters contracted to rate essays as part of the 1993 field test of the Georgia High School Writing Test. All of the raters…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Evaluators, High School Students, High Schools

Pomplun, Mark; Sundbye, Nita – Applied Measurement in Education, 1999
Gender differences in answers to constructed-response reading items from a state assessment program were studied with four raters rating approximately 500 papers at two grade levels. Results indicate that number of words written and number of unrelated responses show significant gender differences and are related to holistic scores. (SLD)
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Holistic Evaluation, Reading Tests, Secondary Education
Zhang, Liru – 2001
To understand the achievement gap between Black and White students, test performance on Delaware statewide assessments was studied. The study focused on Black-White test score gaps in reading, mathematics, and writing across grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 by achievement level, item format, and gender within each racial/ethnic group over time. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Linton, Thomas H. – 2000
The accountability subset of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was studied over 4 years to identify trends that might explain why the 1999 TAAS passing rate did not decrease as was predicted. Expanding the accountability index in those years to include special education students was expected to cause a decline in the TAAS…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests, Racial Differences

Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield, Dept. of Planning, Research and Evaluation. – 1983
This report summarizes information about student achievement, student opportunity to learn in science and mathematics, and student variables relating to that achievement for elementary and secondary students in the state of Illinois. Five tests were used for the basis of this report: The Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress, the American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Longitudinal Studies
Kiplinger, Vonda L.; Linn, Robert L. – 1994
Recently, several states have expressed interest in linking their statewide assessments to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in the hope that, through equating, they can be compared to national results. This study considers the degree to which existing statewide assessments may be linked to NAEP, without violating the basic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Research. – 1974
A representative sample of about 2,500 third-graders took the Cultural Arts Test, a perception survey which was part of the 1973-74 State Assessment of Educational Progress in North Carolina. The test dealt with students' perceptions of their own competence, interests, preferences, and happiness in the cultural arts; of their teachers. and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Family Income, Fine Arts
Gelin, Michaela N.; Zumbo, Bruno D. – 2003
This study introduced and demonstrated a new methodology for item and test bias studies: moderated differential item functioning (DIF). This technique expands the DIF methodology to incorporate contextual and sociological variables as moderating effects of the DIF. The study explored differential domain functioning (DDF), so that the focus of…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Context Effect, Ecological Factors, Educational Sociology
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Research. – 1974
In the 1973-74 North Carolina State Assessment approximately 2,500 third-graders took a health test and a physical education test. The students were randomly selected to represent the third-grade population in the state as a whole and in the three geographic regions: Mountains, Piedmont, and Costal Plains. Both sexes were about evenly represented.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Family Income, Geographic Regions
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 2001
This report presents detailed information about the student assessment results of the Colorado Student Assessment Program. Included among the data is information on student achievement by gender, ethnicity or race, disability, and accommodation categories. In addition, achievement data are presented for each school district and for schools…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 1977
The Massachusetts Statewide Educational Assessment in Consumer Education covers six content areas: borrowing, buying, investing, planning, protecting, and sharing. Nine year old and seventeen year old students were selected from various kinds of communities, six regions of the state, and from varying family occupational backgrounds. Both male and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Consumer Education, Educational Assessment
Nuttall, Ronald; Hell, Regina Jean-Van – 2001
The aim of this study was to look at the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) data for 10th graders from 1998 and investigate whether these differences were significant when using the mathematics and science achievement scores. In addition, the variables of socioeconomic status, gender, and types of courses taken in mathematics and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Black Students, Course Selection (Students), High School Students
Holweger, Nancy; Taylor, Grace – 1998
The fifth-grade and eighth-grade science items on a state performance assessment were compared for differential item functioning (DIF) due to gender. The grade 5 sample consisted of 8,539 females and 8,029 males and the grade 8 sample consisted of 7,477 females and 7,891 males. A total of 30 fifth grade items and 26 eighth grade items were…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 8
Siskind, Theresa G. – 1987
Results from the fall 1987 administration of the Cognitive Skills Assessment Battery (CSAB) to 3,203 kindergarten and 4,415 first-grade students within the Charleston County (South Carolina) School District are presented. The CSAB is an individually administered readiness test that comprises a hybrid of aptitude tests, diagnostic tests, and…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Annual Reports, Cognitive Tests, Disabilities