Sentences with phrase «constructed achievement tests»

If traditionally constructed achievement tests are used — tests akin to those now widely employed — then we will surely witness a continued test - triggered erosion of educational quality.

Not exact matches

To test the sensitivity of our results to this methodological decision, we constructed a value - added indicator that measures a teacher's contribution to student achievement (accounting for a wide variety of student and classroom characteristics that could affect achievement independent of the teacher's ability).

So, producing score spread often preoccupies those who construct standardized achievement tests.

These tests are constructed to determine differences in achievement between students.

Measured achievement gaps between male and female students on state accountability tests are larger (more male - favoring) on tests with more multiple - choice questions and fewer constructed - response (i.e., open - ended) questions.

We find that the estimated gaps are strongly associated with the proportions of the test scores based on multiple - choice and constructed - response questions on state accountability tests, even when controlling for gender achievement gaps as measured by the NAEP or NWEA MAP assessments, which have the same item format across states.

The use of standardized test scores and the construct of the achievement gap can be tied to the eugenics movement and its efforts to maintain racial hierarchies.

Simply put, our current technology for constructing tests does not allow us to make strong claims about the relative gains of students who start from very different places in the achievement distribution.