Using test scores for teacher evaluation: Why caution is necessary
This article offers insight and guidance on issues to think about before tests are used as an evaluation tool and to help ensure better choices are made about the role test scores play in a teacher’s evaluation.
Topics: Empowering educators, Student growth & accountability policies
An investigation of examinee test-taking effort on a large-scale assessment
Most previous research involving the study of response times has been conducted using locally developed instruments. The purpose of the current study was to examine the amount of rapid-guessing behavior within a commercially available, low-stakes instrument.
By: Steven Wise, J. Carl Setzer, Jill R. van den Heuvel, Guangming Ling
Topics: Measurement & scaling, School & test engagement, Student growth & accountability policies
Examine construct validity of computerized adaptive test in K–12 assessments
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of missing data in computerized adaptive tests (CAT) on test construct validity.
By: Shudong Wang, Hong Jiao
Topics: Computer adaptive testing
For decades, researchers and practitioners have made a great deal of effort to study a variety of methods to increase parameter accuracy, but only recently can researchers start focusing on improving parameter estimations by using a joint model that could incorporate RT and students information as CI.
By: Shudong Wang, Hong Jiao
Topics: Test design
Do high flyers maintain their altitude?
In the visualizations in this exhibit, you can compare the performance and growth of various groups of high achievers to that of their peers over multiple years.
By: Yun Xiang, Michael Dahlin, John Cronin, Robert Theaker, Sarah Durant
Topics: Equity, High-growth schools & practices
Finding root causes effectively: A powerful way to improve schools
Using experience gained by facilitating the determination of root causes in schools and in industrial settings, as well as lessons from research and literature both within and outside of education, this paper provides a recommend process, and detailed protocols and tools for defining problems to be investigated and determining their root causes.
By: Andrew Hegedus
Topics: High-growth schools & practices
Why Arizona Needs Common Core Standards
This The Arizona Republic article examines the three key areas of mathematics teaching and learning: ways of doing, ways of thinking and habits of thinking.