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- Title
Reliability of Assessment of Reading Ability in Three Countries.
- Authors
Hutchison, Dougal; Kendall, Lesley; Bartholomew, David; Knott, Martin; Galbraith, Jane; Piccoli, Maria
- Abstract
Over the last few decades, there have been a number of national and international programmes to assess performance in key subjects. For example the International Association for Evaluation of Educational Attainment (IEA), International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP), and the Third International Mathematics and Science Survey (TIMSS) programs have aimed to compare performance between participating countries. Such exercises have different requirements from those tests, such as public examinations, which aim to assess the attainment of individuals. National and international assessments aim to cover a very wide range of materials, and often use the technique of multiple matrix sampling to do so. The investigation is based on generalizability-type analyses of three national data sets at two ages, and looks not only at the variance components arising from sampling of schools, and of pupils within them, but also at the variation between different assessment instruments, and between items within assessment instruments. If interpreted with care, such results can be of value in the design of future studies. This paper concentrates largely on the precision of estimates of overall means, but analyses of the type described could also be used to compare the performance of subpopulations.
- Subjects
EVALUATION; ACADEMIC achievement; MATRICES (Mathematics); STATISTICAL sampling; ANALYSIS of variance; SURVEYS
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 2000, Vol 34, Issue 4, p353
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1004766030974