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Participation in Georgia’s Pre-K as a Predictor of Third-Grade Standardized Test Scores
AERA Open, 2019 Propensity score matching was used to compare third-grade test scores in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies for children who had and had not participated in Georgia’s Pre-K 4 years earlier. After matching, each group included
Diane M. Early +3 more
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A Generalized Jarque-Bera Test of Conditional Normality [PDF]
We consider testing normality in a general class of models that admits nonlinear conditional mean and conditional variance functions. We derive the asymptotic distribution of the skewness and kurtosis coefficients of the model’s standardized residuals ...
Chung-Ming Kuan, Yi-Ting Chen
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ChatGPT Performance on Standardized Testing Exam -- A Proposed Strategy for Learners [PDF]
, 2023 Umer Farooq, Saira Anwar
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The Downside of Standardized Testing [PDF]
, 2013 Children in the United States are tested “to an extent that is unprecedented in our history and unparalleled anywhere else in the world.” The federal No Child Left behind Act has triggered a standardized testing “explosion,” the repercussions of which ...
Intschert, Nicole
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The Roma/Non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary [PDF]
This paper documents and decomposes the test score gap between Roma and non-Roma 8th graders in Hungary in 2006. Our data connect national standardized test scores to an individual panel survey with detailed data on ethnicity and family background.
Gabor Kertesi, Gabor Kezdi
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High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Problems for the No Child Left Behind Act [PDF]
, 2005 Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), standardized test scores are the indicator used to hold schools and school districts accountable for student achievement.
David C. Berliner +2 more
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Background Variables, Levels of Aggregation, and Standardized Test Scores
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2009 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">This article examines the role of student demographic characteristics in standardized ...
Sharon E. Paulson, Gregory J. Marchant
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MedEdPublishObjectives This study aims to show whether correlation exists between pediatric residency applicants’ quantitative scores on the United States Medical Licensing Exam Step 2 Clinical Knowledge examination and their subsequent performance in residency ...
Lorne Walker +4 more
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DETECTING LEVEL SHIFTS IN THE PRESENCE OF CONDITIONAL HETEROSCEDASTICITY [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to analyze the finite sample performance of two variants of the likelihood ratio test for detecting a level shift in uncorrelated conditionally heteroscedastic time series.
Daniel Peña +2 more
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