ERIC Number: EJ1220762
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-2332-8584
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Validating the SEDA Measures of District Educational Opportunities via a Common Assessment
Kuhfeld, Megan; Domina, Thurston; Hanselman, Paul
AERA Open, v5 n2 Apr-Jun 2019
The Stanford Educational Data Archive (SEDA) is the first data set to allow comparisons of district academic achievement and growth from Grades 3 to 8 across the United States, shining a light on the distribution of educational opportunities. This study describes a convergent validity analysis of the SEDA growth estimates in mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) by comparing the SEDA estimates against estimates derived from NWEA's MAP Growth assessments. We find strong precision-adjusted correlations between growth estimates from SEDA and MAP Growth in math (0.90) and ELA (0.82). We also find that the discrepancy between the growth estimates in ELA is slightly more pronounced in high socioeconomic districts. Our analyses indicate a high degree of congruence between the SEDA estimates and estimates derived from the vertically scaled MAP Growth assessment. However, small systematic discrepancies imply that the SEDA growth estimates are less likely to generalize to estimates obtained through MAP Growth in some states.
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Assessment, Data Analysis, Archives, Educational Opportunities, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Language Arts, Socioeconomic Status, School Districts, Test Validity, Achievement Tests, Scores
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Measures of Academic Progress
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1519686; P2CHD042849