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50 Years of ERIC
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Providing Subscale Scores for Diagnostic Information: A Case Study when the Test Is Essentially Unidimensional
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Stone, Clement A.; Ye, Feifei; Zhu, Xiaowen; Lane, Suzanne – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
Although reliability of subscale scores may be suspect, subscale scores are the most common type of diagnostic information included in student score reports. This research compared methods for augmenting the reliability of subscale scores for an 8th-grade mathematics assessment. Yen's Objective Performance Index, Wainer et al.'s augmented scores,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Case Studies, Reliability, Scores
Prologue: An Introduction to the Evaluation of NAEP
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Lane, Suzanne; Zumbo, Bruno D.; Abedi, Jamal; Benson, Jeri; Dossey, John; Elliott, Stephen N.; Kane, Michael; Linn, Robert; Paredes-Ziker, Cindy; Rodriguez, Michael; Schraw, Gregg; Slattery, Jean; Thomas, Veronica; Willhoft, Joe – Applied Measurement in Education, 2009
Given the changing landscape of educational accountability at the local, state, and national levels, and the changes in the uses of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), including the evolving uses of NAEP as a policy tool to interpret state assessment and accountability systems, an explicit statement of the current and potential…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Test Validity
Consequences of a State Accountability Program: Examining Relationships between School Performance Gains and Teacher, Student, and School Variables.
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Stone, Clement A.; Lane, Suzanne – Applied Measurement in Education, 2003
Explored the relationship between score changes from the Maryland State Performance Assessment Program (1993 -1998) and classroom instruction and assessment, learning and motivation, beliefs about the assessment, and school characteristics. Several factors from each dimension explained a significant amount of variability in school performance over…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Gains, Elementary Education
Detection of Gender-Related Differential Item Functioning in a Mathematics Performance Assessment.
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Wang, Ning; Lane, Suzanne – Applied Measurement in Education, 1996
Three different differential item functioning (DIF) detection methods were used to examine the extent to which items in a mathematics performance assessment functioned differently for matched gender groups from a sample of 1,782 sixth and seventh graders. Implications of the finding that two items were potentially biased are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
Use of Restricted Item Response Theory Models for Examining the Stability of Item Parameter Estimates over Time.
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Stone, Clement A.; Lane, Suzanne – Applied Measurement in Education, 1991
A model-testing approach for evaluating the stability of item response theory item parameter estimates (IPEs) in a pretest-posttest design is illustrated. Nineteen items from the Head Start Measures Battery were used. A moderately high degree of stability in the IPEs for 5,510 children assessed on 2 occasions was found. (TJH)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Early Childhood Education
Examination of the Assumptions and Properties of the Graded Item Response Model: An Example Using a Mathematics Performance Assessment.
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Lane, Suzanne; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1995
Over 5,000 students participated in a study of the dimensionality and stability of the item parameter estimates of a mathematics performance assessment developed for the Quantitative Understanding: Amplifying Student Achievement and Reasoning (QUASAR) Project. Results demonstrate the test's dimensionality and illustrate ways to examine use of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Estimation (Mathematics), Higher Education, Item Response Theory