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Reardon, Sean F.; Ho, Andrew D. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Ho and Reardon (2012) present methods for estimating achievement gaps when test scores are coarsened into a small number of ordered categories, preventing fine-grained distinctions between individual scores. They demonstrate that gaps can nonetheless be estimated with minimal bias across a broad range of simulated and real coarsened data…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Performance Factors, Educational Practices, Scores
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Halpin, Peter F.; Kieffer, Michael J. – Grantee Submission, 2015
The authors outline the application of latent class analysis (LCA) to classroom observational instruments. LCA offers diagnostic information about teachers' instructional strengths and weaknesses, along with estimates of measurement error for individual teachers, while remaining relatively straightforward to implement and interpret. It is…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Analysis, Error of Measurement