In February, three states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri — announced they wouldn't be able to use the computer - adaptive feature of Smarter Balanced due to technical issues, raising questions about how comparable scores in these states will be with those in other Smarter Balanced states. (hechingerreport.org)
Because the number of countries participating in the 12 test administrations changed from one administration to the next, and because testing agencies have made no attempt to link their results to one another, we needed to develop comparable scores for each test. (educationnext.org)
So, when researchers looked at test scores four years after a school closure, displaced students had generally comparable scores on state math exams to scores of their non-displaced peers. (kinder.rice.edu)