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ERIC Number: EJ1139993
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0671
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Do Interim Assessments Reduce the Race and SES Achievement Gaps?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Li, Wei; Miller, Shazia R.; van der Ploeg, Arie
Journal of Educational Research, v110 n4 p319-330 2017
The authors examined differential effects of interim assessments on minority and low socioeconomic status students' achievement in Grades K-6. They conducted a large-scale cluster randomized experiment in 2009-2010 to evaluate the impact of Indiana's policy initiative introducing interim assessments statewide. The authors used 2-level models to analyze the single-grade data and determine whether interim assessments interacted with student ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, or school composition (i.e., percent of minority or disadvantaged students). The authors also combined estimates across grades using fixed effects meta-analysis. Results indicated little evidence about differential effects. The majority of interaction estimates were insignificant and close to zero. There is some indication that in Grades K-2 Indiana's interim assessment may have closed the Hispanic-White gap in reading. In kindergarten and Grade 3 the treatment may have widened the gap between schools with higher and lower percentages of minority students and may have reduced the gap between schools with higher and lower percentages of economically disadvantaged students in mathematics.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indiana
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress Plus
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