Estimating Achievement Gaps From Test Scores Reported in Ordinal “Proficiency” Categories
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Estimating Achievement Gaps from Test Scores Reported in Ordinal "Proficiency" Categories
Test scores are commonly reported in a small number of ordered categories. Examples of such reporting include state accountability testing, Advanced Placement tests, and English proficiency tests. This paper introduces and evaluates methods for estimating achievement gaps on a familiar standard-deviation-unit metric using data from these ordered categories alone. These methods hold two practica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1076-9986,1935-1054
DOI: 10.3102/1076998611411918