On 22 Jan 2001 15:40:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote:
> At 08:29 PM 1/22/01 +0000, Gene Gallagher wrote:
>
> >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.
>
>
> is this a MEAN for a school? could the mean for a school really be 280?
>
> anyone have any idea ... for one particular test ... say 8th grade in math
> (?) ... how many items are on the test?
A relevant URL was in the post I copied
that brought us the question -
' The test "common questions" are available as PDF files, linked from
http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/00release/. ...'
The intro to the document shows there are 48.
A couple of people have wondered,
Why do they use the scoring range of 200-280?
- I don't know what the authors say, but (on their behalf)
I suggest that maybe the funny range was selected in order
to avoid ignorant comparisons that public tests are prone to.
That is, from these scores, you won't be tempted to say
that 'one school is doing 50% better.'
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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