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Direct linkBernan Press, 2011
"The Almanac of American Education" is an easy-to-use, single-volume source designed to help users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government and reliable private sources, "The Almanac" contains historical and current data, insightful…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Public Schools, Teacher Characteristics, Poverty
Download full textNovick, Melvin R.; And Others – 1971
The feasibility and effectiveness of a Bayesian method for estimating regressions in m groups is studied by application of the method to data from the Basic Research Service of The American College Testing Program. Evidence supports the belief that in many testing applications the collateral information obtained from each subset of m-1 colleges…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bayesian Statistics, College Students, Colleges
Reckase, Mark D. – 1996
The American College Testing Program (ACT) is field testing a portfolio assessment model. The field test is designed to determine whether it is possible to implement a portfolio assessment model on a national level that will result in scores that are of sufficient reliability and validity that they can be used for decisions at the student level.…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Cooperation, Field Tests, High Schools
Schoen, Harold L.; Cebulla, Kristin J.; Winsor, Matthew S. – 2001
The level of preparation for college entrance tests, university mathematics placement tests, and beginning college mathematics courses was studied for students who completed the Standards-oriented curriculum "Contemporary Mathematics in Context" (A. Coxford, J. Fey, C. Hirsch, H. Schoen, E. Hart, B. Keller, and A. Watkins, 2001), the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, College Preparation, Curriculum
Parshall, Cynthia G.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D.; Chason, Walter M. – 1996
The benefits of item response theory (IRT) will only accrue to a testing program to the extent that model assumptions are met. Obtaining accurate item parameter estimates is a critical first step. However, the sample sizes required for stable parameter estimation are often difficult to obtain in practice, particularly for the more complex models.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Response Theory, Models
