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NCME 2022 Presidential Address: Turning the Page to the Next Chapter in Education Measurement
See Derek Briggs deliver the NCME 2022 Presidential Address in San Diego (April 23, 2022): “Turning the Page to the Next Chapter in Education Measurement”. Dr. Briggs provides a big-picture view of the field of educational measurement, and discusses the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead in the 21st Century.” Read more
Descriptive Analyses of Connect for Success, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, and Accountability Pathways
This is an addendum to a report prepared for the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) by the Center for Assessment, Design, Research & Evaluation (CADRE) at CU Boulder (Shear et al., 2021). CDE requested an addendum to the 2021 CADRE report presenting similar descriptive analyses for schools that participated in the Connect for Success (CFS) program and providing initial descriptive analyses of academic outcomes for schools participating in two other Empowering Action for School Improvement (EASI) programs: The Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports (MTSS) and Accountability Pathways Planning and Implementation (Pathways). Read more
Gain Scores and the Regression Fallacy
Professor Derek Briggs uses simulation and argument to caution researchers and practitioners alike about a misinterpretation that is possible whenever growth in student achievement from fall to spring during a school year is being compared to growth from spring to the subsequent fall with summer months in between. In such a scenario it is a predictable outcome that students who show above average growth during the school year will tend to show below average growth during the summer. The misinterpretation is to view this sort of pattern (or its converse) as a sign of summertime activities among a subset of students that require some targeted intervention or modification. Such interpretations are confounded by the famous statistical artifact of regression to the mean. Read more