Measuring Educational Achievement

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Measuring Educational Achievement

• Purpose Measuring Performance of
• Individual students
• Teachers
• School performance
• School district Report Cards
• Programs and policies

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The TESTS

• IQ tests
• SAT\ACT
• International tests
• TIMSS- Third International Math and Science Study
• PISA - Program for International Student
  Assessment
• NAEP National Assessment of Education Progress
• ISAT (IL), MCAS (Ma.), TAAS (TX), CBEST (CA)

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Validity of Educational Tests What do they
measure?

• IQ tests Intelligence or Aptitude?
• Vocabulary?
• Test-Taking Skills?
• SAT Predicted College Performance?
• Achievement or Learning?

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Unreliability of Tests

• Teaching to the Test Lake Woebegone
  Effect
• Percentage of Students taking the test.
• Timing of the Test
• Tests that dont matter to students

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Gender Bias

• Women do less well on Math SAT, but
  better on Math in school, and on Verbal SAT
• ReasonsGender related approaches to
  test-takingBiased questionsSocietal Biases

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Cultural Bias Minority Groups and Poor

• Home and school disadvantages
• Language and Vocabulary
• Culturally Biased Question wording
• Marathon is to running as Regatta is
  to..
• Test Anxiety (Claude Steele)
• Race-related Validity problems

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