[PDF] Linking The National Assessment Of Educational Progress Naep And The Third International Mathematics And Science Study Timss eBook

Author : Eugene G. Johnson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2000-02
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ISBN : 0788185748

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The 3rd Internat. Math. and Science Study (TIMSS) is an internat. comparative study designed to provide info. about educ'l. achiev. and learning contexts for the participating countries. The Nat. Assess. of Educ'l. Progress (NAEP) surveys the educ'l. accomplish. of U.S. students and monitors changes in those accomplish. NAEP tracks the educ'l. achievements of 4th-, 8th-, 11th-, and 12th-grade students over time in selected content areas. Because TIMSS and NAEP were administered within a year of each other, there has been interest in attempting to link the 2 assessments. This report links NAEP results to TIMSS results for grade 8 math. and science.

Author : Gary W. Phillips
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2007
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Educators, researchers, and policymakers have considerable interest in how the American educational system compares to those in other countries. One major index for comparison is student academic achievement. This paper links the scale of the "National Assessment of Educational Progress" ("NAEP") to the scale of the "Third International Mathematics and Science Study" ("TIMSS"). Linking is a process that provides a concordance table that expresses scores on one test (e.g., TIMSS) in terms of the metric of another test (e.g., NAEP). This paper uses statistical moderation to link the NAEP achievement levels to TIMSS by extending the process used in the "2000 NAEP-1999 TIMSS Linking Report" (Johnson et al. 2005). The purpose of this linking is to project the NAEP achievement levels onto the TIMSS scale. More specifically, the grade 8 NAEP: 2000 achievement levels in mathematics and science are projected on to the grade 8 TIMSS: 1999 assessment in mathematics and science. The linking equation is also applied to the 2003 TIMSS in mathematics and science. The goal is to project the grade 8 mathematics and science achievement levels in NAEP onto the TIMSS scale and thereby estimate the percent of basic, proficient, and advanced students in each country that participated in the 1999 TIMSS and 2003 TIMSS studies. The analyses in this paper provide a useful application of NAEP achievement levels. By projecting them onto the TIMSS scale, the NAEP achievement levels provide benchmarks for international comparisons. (Contains 30 tables and 6 footnotes.).

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 1998-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309062799

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The issues surrounding the comparability of various tests used to assess performance in schools received broad public attention during congressional debate over the Voluntary National Tests proposed by President Clinton in his 1997 State of the Union Address. Proponents of Voluntary National Tests argue that there is no widely understood, challenging benchmark of individual student performance in 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics, thus the need for a new test. Opponents argue that a statistical linkage among tests already used by states and districts might provide the sort of comparability called for by the president's proposal. Public Law 105-78 requested that the National Research Council study whether an equivalency scale could be developed that would allow test scores from existing commercial tests and state assessments to be compared with each other and with the National Assessment of Education Progress. In this book, the committee reviewed research literature on the statistical and technical aspects of creating valid links between tests and how the content, use, and purposes of education testing in the United States influences the quality and meaning of those links. The book summarizes relevant prior linkage studies and presents a picture of the diversity of state testing programs. It also looks at the unique characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Uncommon Measures provides an answer to the question posed by Congress in Public Law 105-78, suggests criteria for evaluating the quality of linkages, and calls for further research to determine the level of precision needed to make inferences about linked tests. In arriving at its conclusions, the committee acknowledged that ultimately policymakers and educators must take responsibility for determining the degree of imprecision they are willing to tolerate in testing and linking. This book provides science-based information with which to make those decisions.

Author : Gregory J. Cizek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135477051

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This is Volume 18, Issue 1 2005, a Special Issue of Applied Measurement in Education looking at the area of Vertically Moderated Standard Setting. As well as the editor’s introduction this collection includes six articles which cover: background on the need for YMSS, and presents a strong argument for aligning policy aims and psychometric methods to achieve coherent systems of educational assessments in general, and corresponding performance standards; background on YMSS and discusses possible alternatives; the third article, examines YMSS from the perspective of the sponsoring agency or authority responsible for conducting and applying standard-setting procedures; in kindergarten through 12th-grade applications, ; a recounting of the road to a system of vertically moderated standards across Grades 3 through 8 for a state-level science assessment program in South Carolina; describing the situations for which YMSS is a viable alternative to vertical scaling or equating and finally, an example of YMSS applied to the South Carolina student assessments in English language arts and mathematics across Grades 3 through 7.

Author : Randy E. Bennett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319586890

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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.​​ This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world’s leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book’s four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific psychology, and validity. Many of the developments presented have become de-facto standards in educational and psychological measurement, including in item response theory (IRT), linking and equating, differential item functioning (DIF), and educational surveys like the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Programme of international Student Assessment (PISA), the Progress of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In addition to its comprehensive coverage of contributions to the theory and methodology of educational and psychological measurement and statistics, the book gives significant attention to ETS work in cognitive, personality, developmental, and social psychology, and to education policy analysis and program evaluation. The chapter authors are long-standing experts who provide broad coverage and thoughtful insights that build upon decades of experience in research and best practices for measurement, evaluation, scientific psychology, and education policy analysis. Opening with a chapter on the genesis of ETS and closing with a synthesis of the enormously diverse set of contributions made over its 70-year history, the book is a useful resource for all interested in the improvement of human assessment.