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| Title: |
Linking statewide Tests to the National Assessment of Educational Progress: Stability of Results |
| Author: |
Linn, Robert L. Kiplinger, Vonda L. |
| Appeared in: |
Applied measurement in education |
| Paging: | Volume 8 (1995) nr. 2 pages 135-155 |
| Year: |
1995-04-01 |
| Contents: |
The adequacy of linking statewide standardized test results to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) by using equipercentile equating procedures was investigated. Statewide mathematics test data for eighth-grade students in 1990 and 1992 were obtained from four states. NAEP data for samples from these four states were obtained from the results of the Trial State Assessment administrations in the same years. Equating functions for male and female students in two states providing gender identification were similar at the low end of the scale but diverged at the high end of the scale. Applications of the equating functions obtained for 1990 data to the statewide test results obtained in 1992 provided estimates that were generally similar to actual NAEP results near the median, but not in the tails of the distribution. These results suggest that such linking, although reasonable for estimating average performance for the state, are not sufficiently trustworthy to use for making comparisons based on the tails of the distribution. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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