What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us?

Stephen P. Klein, Laura S. Hamilton, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Brian M. Stecher

2000-01-01bookRAND Corporation eBooks52 citationsgreen

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Educational Assessment and Improvement School Choice and Performance Teacher Education and Assessments

Abstract

We examine the results on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), the highest-profile state testing program and one that has recorded extraordinary recent gains in math and reading scores. To investigate whether the dramatic math and reading gains on the TAAS represent actual academic progress, we have compared these gains to score changes in Texas on another test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). ...

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