Practical Issues in Estimating Achievement Gaps from Coarsened Data / Sean F. Reardon and Andrew D. Ho.
Ho and Reardon (2012) present methods for estimating achievement gaps when test scores are coarsened into a small number of ordered categories, preventing fine-grained distinctions between individual scores. They demonstrate that gaps can nonetheless be estimated with minimal bias across a broad ran...
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| Summary: | Ho and Reardon (2012) present methods for estimating achievement gaps when test scores are coarsened into a small number of ordered categories, preventing fine-grained distinctions between individual scores. They demonstrate that gaps can nonetheless be estimated with minimal bias across a broad range of simulated and real coarsened data scenarios. In this paper, we extend this previous work to obtain practical estimates of the imprecision imparted by the coarsening process and of the bias imparted by measurement error. In the first part of the paper, we derive standard error estimates and demonstrate that coarsening leads to only very modest increases in standard errors under a wide range of conditions. In the second part of the paper, we describe and evaluate a practical method for disattenuating gap estimates to account for bias due to measurement error. [This paper was published in "Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics" v40 n2 p158-189 Apr 2015 (EJ1057843).] |
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| Item Description: | Sponsoring Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (ED). Contract Number: R305D110018. Contract Number: R305B090016. Abstractor: As Provided. |
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