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Common Measures for Purposes Other Than Individual Scores
Pages 56-61

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... Those purposes include: reporting aggregated statistics for schools or districts on the scale of NAEP or another well-regarclec3 national test; comparing state performance stanciarcis against national performance stanciarcis that are consiclerec3 rigorous; reporting state performance on the NAEP scale in years when state NAEP is not aciministerec3 or when particular subjects are not incluclec3 in the NAEP assessment for that year; and auditing yearly gains on state tests. Accordingly, we comment briefly in this chapter on a number of such potential uses of embecicling parts of a national test in state tests.
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From page 57...
... In the aggregate, however, these fluctuations tend to average out and will therefore have less effect on the average test score earned by an entire school, and less yet on the average score obtained for an entire district. When only errors of this sort are involvecl, the precision of the estimate increases with the size of the group on which it is based.
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From page 58...
... The 1998 Artrtual Survey of State Studer~t Assessment Programs, concluctec3 by the Council of Chief State School Officers, inclicatec3 that most states leave decisions about the exclusion of students with limited English proficiency from state assessments to local committees or to the schools themselves (Olson et al., in press)
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From page 59...
... . STATE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Although it has never been formally published, Musick's "Setting Education Standards High Enough" is one of the most frequently requested publications produced by the Southern Regional Education Board.
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... The result of their study was that the state stanciarcis were cleemec3 to be at least as difficult as the NAEP stanciarcis. ESTIMATING STATE NAEP RESULTS IN YEARS THAT STATE NAEP IS NOT ADMINISTERED States may be interested in obtaining estimates of performance relative to NAEP achievement levels or the NAEP scale for years when the NAEP state assessment is not aciministerec3 in order to monitor progress anc3 support trencis with aciclitional data points.
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... evaluated gains on Kentucky's state test by comparing trencis to those on state NAEP. However, the advantages and clisacivan' sages of embecicling national items in state tests to validate gains on state tests remain largely unexplored.
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