Measuring School Performance for Early Elementary Grades in Maryland

Lisa Dragoset, Cassandra Baxter, Dallas Dotter and Elias Walsh

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Abstract: The purpose of this report was to investigate the feasibility of constructing a school-level measure of students' academic growth from kindergarten to grade 3 and to assess the validity and precision of that measure.

Keywords: Accountability; Growth models; Achievement gains; Elementary school students; Kindergarten; Grade 1; Grade 2; Grade 3; Standardized tests; Public schools; Reading achievement; Mathematics achievement; Correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
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