Refining Methods for Estimating Critical Values for an Alignment Index

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 380-395

  Polikoff, Morgan S ^a   Fulmer, Gavin W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Alignment; assessments; education policy; simulation; standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885410768     PISSN: 19345747     EISSN: 19345739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2012.755593     Document Type: Article

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