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Title:

Reaching Students in the Gaps: A Study of Assessment Gaps, Students, and Alternatives

Authors:

Staff of the New England Compact

Description:

In February 2005, four New England states (Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine) received a U.S. Department of Education grant to explore gaps in large-scale assessment systems that prevent some students from demonstrating their proficiency. The results of this work, Reaching Students In the Gaps, addresses the following questions:

Who are the students in the gaps?
Of all the students who are not proficient, how can states identify those who are in the assessment gaps?
What are the attributes of students in the gaps, and how do these students perform?
What issues in the assessments themselves contribute to the gaps?
Are there specific aspects of multiple-choice items used in state assessments that contribute to the assessment gaps?

The studies used multiple methods to explore these research questions, each providing a particular angle from which to consider the issues of assessment gaps, students in those gaps, and assessment alternatives to lessen the gaps.

Publication Date:

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Media:

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Length:

469 pp.

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