Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ512944
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Enhancing the Validity and Usefulness of Large-Scale Educational Assessments: I. NELS:88 Mathematics Achievement.
Kupermintz, Haggai; And Others
American Educational Research Journal, v32 n3 p525-54 Fall 1995
This study demonstrates that the validity and usefulness of mathematics achievement tests can be improved by defining psychologically meaningful subscores that yield differential relations with student, teacher, and school variables. The eighth- and tenth-grade mathematics tests from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) were used. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10, Grade 8, Institutional Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, National Surveys, Psychological Testing, Scores, Student Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics, Test Use, Test Validity, Testing Programs
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Large Scale Programs; National Education Longitudinal Study 1988
Note: Section on teaching, learning, and human development. Research begun with support from the Department of Education through Grant No. G0087CO235 and continued with support from the National Science Foundation, Grant No. RED-9253068. For related document, see TM 519 137.


