ERIC Number: ED626539
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Feb
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
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Stabilizing Subgroup Proficiency Results to Improve the Identification of Low-Performing Schools. REL 2023-001
Forrow, Lauren; Starling, Jennifer; Gill, Brian
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
The Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to identify schools with low-performing student subgroups for Targeted Support and Improvement or Additional Targeted Support and Improvement. Random differences between students' true abilities and their test scores, also called measurement error, reduce the statistical reliability of the performance measures used to identify schools for these categorizations. Measurement error introduces a risk that the identified schools are unlucky rather than truly low performing. Using data provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the study team used Bayesian hierarchical modeling to improve the reliability of subgroup proficiency measures and demonstrate the approach's efficacy. [For the Study Snapshot, see ED626540. For the appendixes, see ED626541.]
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Low Achievement, Error of Measurement, Measurement Techniques, Bayesian Statistics, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Accountability, Reliability, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Language Arts, Low Income Students, Students with Disabilities, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, English Language Learners, Scores
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic. Available from: Institute of Education Sciences. 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20202. Tel: 202-245-6940; Web site: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/midatlantic/index.asp
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic (ED/IES); National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) (ED/IES); Mathematica
Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: 91990022C0012
IES Publication: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/rel/Products/Publication/106926