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Want to get a copy of Accountability Frankenstein without paying?
I’m still on chapter 2, which has ballooned beyond the size I anticipated. I’m at the fun stage, filling in holes that largely involve writing what I already know. It’s akin to putting the last pieces into a jigsaw puzzle. There are three substantive chunks left and then I need to redraft the chapter conclusion. […]
Was there a difference between intelligence and achievement tests 80 years ago?
Today’s passage touched briefly on the overlapping development of intelligence and achievement tests early in the 20th century. Most of the historiography has focused on so-called IQ tests, their flaws, and their political uses. But at the same time that school districts were purchasing millions of IQ tests, they were also purchasing millions of the […]
Claudio Sanchez says “HLM”
Todays’ the day that NPR education reporter Claudio Sanchez said hierarchical linear modeling on air. This story was really about the public brouhaha over the did-she-or-didn’t-she-downplay-the-study controversy on the public/private analysis of NAEP, but it’s nice for the phrase to be out in public. Maybe this means that Sanchez will report on Jenny D.‘s dissertation? […]
More on the politics of thresholds
Just a few days after I wrote about cut scores or thresholds, uber-conservative Charles Murray criticizes NCLB for relying on them for proficiency labels (subscription required), accountability nihilist Susan Ohanian praises him, and Ford Foundation staffer Michael Petrilli talks back at Murray. (Hat tip: Andrew Rotherham.) Update: Manhattan Institute’s Jay Greene and Marcus Winters have […]
Cut scores and democracy
This evening, I’ve been trying to boil down the controversy over cut scores (jump-started by Gene Glass in 1978, in the first wave of minimum-competency tests), and I’ve been trying to pay close attention to the counter-arguments. The one that pulls at me most is one advanced separately by Michael Scriven and James Popham in […]