Flow and diffusion of high-stakes test scores

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 41, 2009, Pages 17267-17270

  Marder, M ^a   Bansal, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Education; Fokker Planck equation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EDUCATION; FLOW; MATHEMATICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TEXAS;

EID: 70350460034     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812221106     Document Type: Article

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