Estimating Test-Score Growth for Schools and Districts with a Gap Year in the Data

Autor/inn/en	Fazlul, Ishtiaque; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric; Qian, Cheng
Titel	Estimating Test-Score Growth for Schools and Districts with a Gap Year in the Data
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 7 (2021) 1, (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
Schlagwörter	Scores; Achievement Gains; Computation; School Districts; Schools; Accuracy; Growth Models; Academic Achievement; Elementary Secondary Education; COVID-19; Pandemics; Missouri + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; School district; Schulbezirk; School; Schule; Schulleistung
Abstract	We evaluate the feasibility of estimating test-score growth for schools and districts with a gap year in test data. Our research design uses a simulated gap year in testing when a true test gap did not occur, which facilitates comparisons of district- and school-level growth estimates with and without a gap year. We find that growth estimates based on the full data and gap-year data are generally similar, establishing that useful growth measures can be constructed with a gap year in test data. Our findings apply most directly to testing disruptions that occur in the absence of other disruptions to the school system. They also provide insights about the test stoppage induced by COVID-19, although our work is just a first step toward producing informative school- and district-level growth measures from the pandemic period. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01