The Impact of Performance Level Misclassification on the Accuracy and Precision of Percent at Performance Level Measures

Damian W. Betebenner, Yi Shang, Yun Xiang, Yan Zhao, Xiaohui Yue · 2008

NCLB performance mandates, embedded within state accountability systems, focus school AYP/AMO compliance squarely on the percentage of students at or above proficient. In this pape…

Published

January 1, 2008

Published in: Journal of Educational Measurement
Version: working paper

2006 working-paper version; the published article is available through the DOI.

Abstract

NCLB performance mandates, embedded within state accountability systems, focus school AYP/AMO compliance squarely on the percentage of students at or above proficient. In this paper we challenge the received orthodoxy that measurement error associated with individual students’ scores is inconsequential for aggregate percent proficient statistics, showing how performance level misclassification affects both the accuracy and the precision of percent-at-performance-level measures.

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Damian W. Betebenner, Yi Shang, Yun Xiang, Yan Zhao, Xiaohui Yue (2008). The Impact of Performance Level Misclassification on the Accuracy and Precision of Percent at Performance Level Measures. Journal of Educational Measurement, 45(2), 119–137. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3984.2007.00056.x

@article{betebenner2008performance,
  author  = {Damian W. Betebenner and Yi Shang and Yun Xiang and Yan Zhao and Xiaohui Yue},
  title   = {{The Impact of Performance Level Misclassification on the Accuracy and Precision of Percent at Performance Level Measures}},
  year    = {2008},
  journal = {Journal of Educational Measurement},
  volume  = {45},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {119--137},
  doi     = {10.1111/j.1745-3984.2007.00056.x}
}