{"id":237,"date":"2004-08-11T05:35:37","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T09:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=237"},"modified":"2004-08-11T05:35:37","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T09:35:37","slug":"more-net-flow-sas-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"More net-flow SAS files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More test SAS files for state-level net flow from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/Net-flow test 5.sas\">North Carolina in 2000-01<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/Net-flow test 6.sas\">Massachusetts in 2000-01<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/Net-flow test 7.sas\">Massachusetts from the mid-1990s<\/a>.  As I&#8217;ve seen before I got the algorithm right, there&#8217;s a significant downtick for Mass. 2000-01 for 10th grade (or a higher-magnitude negative flow).  You need several years of data <strong>after<\/strong> that point to know precisely how to interpret that datum.  Is it a response to the implementation of either the high-stakes system with MCAS or the exit exam in Massachusetts?  Hard to tell, exactly.  Having seen anecdotal evidence of school-system responses to high-stakes testing, it might be evidence of a massive burp of triage\/purging or of a student response.  It&#8217;s the broader pattern that&#8217;s really necessary to tease things out.<\/p>\n<p>One methods issue:  there are two ways to think of smoothing data for small systems.  One is to take annual data and smooth it.  The other is to estimate two-year net-flows.  Have to work on appropriate SAS statements for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More test SAS files for state-level net flow from North Carolina in 2000-01, Massachusetts in 2000-01, and Massachusetts from the mid-1990s. As I&#8217;ve seen before I got the algorithm right, there&#8217;s a significant downtick for Mass. 2000-01 for 10th grade (or a higher-magnitude negative flow). You need several years of data after that point to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-3P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}