Children left behind in AYP and non-AYP schools: Using student progress and the distribution of student gains to validate AYP

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 21-32

  Choi, Kilchan ^a,c   Seltzer, Michael ^a   Herman, Joan ^a   Yamashiro, Kyo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b San Diego Unified School District

^c Center for Research on Evaluation

Author keywords

Distribution of student growth; Gain score modeling; Validation of AYP

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548583922     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2007.00098.x     Document Type: Article

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