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Direct linkGeorges, Annie; Maldonado, Saúl I.; Uppal, Harpreet K. – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
The academic achievement, bilingual proficiency, and sociocultural competence of exiting middle school students was analyzed to provide dual-language program stakeholders with evaluative information for local control funding and accountability planning. Informed by equity as a guiding principle of additive bilingualism, researchers used…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Bilingualism, Correlation, 21st Century Skills
Thompson, Nathan A. – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2008
The widespread application of personal computers to educational and psychological testing has substantially increased the number of test administration methodologies available to testing programs. Many of these mediums are referred to by their acronyms, such as CAT, CBT, CCT, and LOFT. The similarities between the acronyms and the methods…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Psychological Testing, Classification, Educational Testing
Alati, David K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
No significant differences in beginning eighth-grade pretest compared to ending eighth-grade posttest California Achievement Test Normal Curve Equivalent Scores were found for youth at risk who completed a pre-eighth-grade summer academic enrichment program where comparisons for reading vocabulary t(19) = 0.46, p = 0.33 (one-tailed), d = 0.107,…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Pretests Posttests, Grade 8, Summer Programs
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This study examined whether having a teacher who chose an alternate route to certification (AC) rather than a teacher who chose a traditional certification route (TC) affects the reading and math achievement of elementary school students. The study included about 2,600 kindergarten through fifth-grade students and their 174 teachers. These…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Alternative Teacher Certification, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Deke, John; Dragoset, Lisa; Moore, Ravaris – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
In randomized controlled trials (RCTs) where the outcome is a student-level, study-collected test score, a particularly valuable piece of information is a study-collected baseline score from the same or similar test (a pre-test). Pre-test scores can be used to increase the precision of impact estimates, conduct subgroup analysis, and reduce bias…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Scores, Pretests Posttests, Regression (Statistics)
Holmes, Susan E. – 1980
The purpose of the research was to explore an alternative implementation strategy for Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I evaluation Model A; that is, the use of Rasch calibrated item banks rather than traditional norm-referenced tests. A methodology for obtaining normative information for such banks involved equating a normed test with…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Item Banks
Saginaw Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation Services. – 1987
This process evaluation focused on the compensatory education delivery system in reading and mathematics in the Saginaw (Michigan) School District, which consists of three programs: (1) an elementary academic achievement program that involved 2,105 students, who were taken out of regular classrooms; (2) a secondary academic achievement program…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedPowers, Stephen; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1983
The validity of the equipercentile hypothesis of the Title I Evaluation and Reporting System norm-referenced evaluation model was examined using 3,224 seventh- and ninth-grade students. Findings from confidence interval procedures contradicted the equipercentile hypothesis. There was a pattern of large gains for students not receiving any special…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Hypothesis Testing
Rice, G. Elizabeth; Higgins, Norman – 1982
Teachers' perspectives on the student assessment process and on the role of testing in that process are presented. Primarily ethnographic in approach, this study includes investigations of teachers' ideas and thought processes as well as observation of actual classroom practice. Six elementary teachers participated in a three-stage process of…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Ethnography
Peer reviewedDimitrov, Dimiter M. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1999
Combines item response theory (IRT) and statistical methods to analyze California Achievement Test-Mathematics (CAT-M) results for 4,135 seventh graders in northeast Ohio. Provides information to educational analysts about which IRT model fits CAT-M data for the target population, test accuracy in estimating students' abilities at different…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Evaluation Research, Grade 7, Item Response Theory
Dangel, Timothy R. – 1985
The model used to evaluate the mathematics curriculum of the Anne Arundel County Public Schools (Maryland) involved three phases: the curriculum; instruction, or the implementation of the curriculum; and students' attitudes, performance, and later success. The evaluation was conducted in 1984. Data were collected from seven sources: a review of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Curriculum Evaluation
Poulos, Nicholis – 1982
The Horizons-Upward Bound Program assists students from low income families who have shown a potential for academic achievement to conclude high school and to go on to higher education. It provides participants with services and enrichment activities in high school English, mathematics, reading, and science. The analysis of pre- and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Enrichment Activities, Low Income, Nontraditional Education
Gabriel, Roy M.; Estes, Gary D. – 1985
The adoption by Seattle (Washington) Public Schools of the Prescriptive Reading Inventory Reading System (PRI-RS) was a decision driven by the district's commitment to effective schooling. The PRI-RS is a criterion referenced approach to the instruction and assessment of reading skills, and it consists of five levels, A through E, coordinated with…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
For the past twelve years, the School District of Philadelphia has conducted an annual evaluation of the projects funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I. Since 1973, the annual evaluations have been produced in two volumes - The Technical Report and the Abstracts. This volume contains abstracts of 31 project reports. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment
Estes, Gary D. – 1979
Normative data reported by publishers of the California Achievement Test, the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, and the SRA Assessment Survey were used to illustrate a procedure for specifying goals for Title I programs in terms of normal curve equivalent (NCE) gains. The procedure was based on the amount of growth reflected in student reading…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Educational Objectives
