In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert J. MacG. Dawson) wrote:
>
>
> "Daniel P. B. Smith" wrote:
> >
> > Can anybody possibly believe that a difference of one point in 245.3
can
> > possibly be significant? We're talking about schools with a less
than a
> > maybe sixty fourth-graders in them. This just runs against common
> > sense...
>
> Didn't somebody say a week or so back that the scale runs from a
> minimum of 200 to a maximum of 280 - or did I dream that? (If this
*is*
> true, why in the heck would anybody do such a thing? To create the
> impression of small differences?)
>
> -Robert Dawson
>
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The scale is set from 200 to 280, but the maximum score that I've seen
so far is 257 (Boston Latin Math). The DOE only provides these data as
pdf's so it is difficult to find the max.
--
Eugene D. Gallagher
ECOS, UMASS/Boston
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