by National Academic and Character Team | May 15, 2017 | Databits
Why are my proficiency scores high yet my learning gains seem to be low? An Individual assessment score (e.g. Reading -Spring) indicates the academic status of a student at a particular point in time while learning gains measure the growth of a student from one point...
by National Academic and Character Team | Feb 24, 2017 | Databits
Why are my predictions frequently incorrect? In an earlier blog post, we discussed the difficulties involved in making individual student predictions, especially when we are attempting to make pass/fail predictions. Great care must be utilized when attempting to...
by National Academic and Character Team | Nov 1, 2016 | Databits
Oh, my head hurts! What is the relationship between all of these different numbers representing my student’s performance on STAR (Scale Score, PR, NCE) and how are they used? Why do we complicate matters with the NCE? A Computer Adaptive Test (CAT), like the STAR...
by National Academic and Character Team | Oct 12, 2016 | Databits
My state proficiency scores don’t agree with my STAR results, What’s going on? Proficiency is a statistically vague term that is defined in vastly different ways by different people. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines proficient as “well advanced in an art,...
by National Academic and Character Team | Sep 23, 2016 | Databits
Why does it appear that achieving high learning gains doesn’t seem to guarantee good state test results? In the previous blog post of September 13, 2016, we clearly established that there is a very strong relationship between STAR results and state assessment results....
