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....
by National Academic and Character Team | Sep 13, 2016 | Databits
One of the important issues for our schools is the ability to optimize their student’s performance on state tests. One of my (perhaps overused) comments is that effective education will be reflected on any well-constructed test. If this is true, then we can utilize...
