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Direct linkCanada, Patricia Oxendine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In response to the mandates of No Child Left Behind, (NCLB), educators across the country struggle to close the gaps between males and females. Some of the physiological differences existing between the male and female brain suggest support for single-gender instruction, which is on the rise within this country as well as other parts of the world.…
Descriptors: Scores, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Gender Differences
Download full textYoung, John W.; Holtzman, Steven; Steinberg, Jonathan – Educational Testing Service, 2011
In this research investigation of score comparability for language minority students (English language learners [ELLs] and former English language learners), we examined 3 indicators of score comparability (reliability, internal test structure, and differential item functioning) for 4th and 8th grade students who took the NCLB-mandated content…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Grade 8, Minority Group Students
Springer, Matthew G.; Pepper, Matthew J.; Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2009
This study examines the effect of supplemental educational services (SES) on student test score gains and whether particular subgroups of students benefit more from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) tutoring services. The sample used includes information on students enrolled in 3rd through 8th grades nested in 121 elementary and middle schools over a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewedRotberg, Iris C. – Educational Leadership, 2006
The current preoccupation in the United States with test-based accountability is founded on a set of faulty assumptions--about education practices elsewhere in the world, about international test score comparisons, and about the extent to which test scores are valid indicators of the quality of education or the state of the economy. For example,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Standardized Tests, Scores
