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ERIC Number: EJ289082
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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Reducing Proportion of Chance Scores in Inner-City Standardized Testing Results: Impact on Average Scores.
Wick, John W.
American Educational Research Journal, v20 n3 p461-63 Fall 1983
Prior to 1975, students in Chicago Public Schools were assigned grade level tests, a practice that in 1974 resulted in 42 percent of the students scoring at the equivalent of a "chance" level. In 1975, the schools switched to functioning level testing. The change caused lower average test scores, but the percentage of chance scores dropped to eight percent. (LC)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Scores, Standardized Tests, Urban Education
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Chicago Public Schools IL; Out of Level Testing