The geography of racial/ethnic test score gaps

SF Reardon, D Kalogrides… - American Journal of …, 2019‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
The authors estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas
and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 …

The econometrics of early childhood human capital and investments

F Cunha, E Nielsen, B Williams - Annual Review of Economics, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent developments in the econometrics of early childhood human
capital and investments. We start with a discussion about the lack of cardinality in test …

[ספר][B] Linking

MJ Kolen, RL Brennan, MJ Kolen, RL Brennan - 2014‏ - Springer
In this chapter, we describe linking categorization schemes and criteria and consider
equating, vertical scaling, and other related methodologies as a part of these categorization …

Do test score gaps grow before, during, or between the school years? Measurement artifacts and what we can know in spite of them

PT Von Hippel, C Hamrock - Sociological Science, 2019‏ - sociologicalscience.com
Do test score gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged children originate inside or
outside schools? One approach to this classic question is to ask (1) How large are gaps …

Long-run trends in the US SES—Achievement gap

EA Hanushek, JD Light, PE Peterson… - … Finance and Policy, 2022‏ - direct.mit.edu
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps
in educational achievement by socioeconomic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT …

The relationship between test item format and gender achievement gaps on math and ELA tests in fourth and eighth grades

SF Reardon, D Kalogrides, EM Fahle… - Educational …, 2018‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Prior research suggests that males outperform females, on average, on multiple-choice
items compared to their relative performance on constructed-response items. This paper …

Kindergarten Black–White test score gaps: Re-examining the roles of socioeconomic status and school quality with new data

DM Quinn - Sociology of Education, 2015‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Black–white test score gaps form in early childhood and widen over elementary school.
Sociologists have debated the roles that socioeconomic status (SES) and school quality play …

The evolution of the Black-White test score gap in Grades K–3: The fragility of results

TN Bond, K Lang - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013‏ - direct.mit.edu
Although both economists and psychometricians typically treat them as interval scales, test
scores are reported using ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study …

The measurement of student ability in modern assessment systems

B Jacob, J Rothstein - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016‏ - aeaweb.org
Economists often use test scores to measure a student's performance or an adult's human
capital. These scores reflect nontrivial decisions about how to measure and scale student …

Educational opportunity in early and middle childhood: Using full population administrative data to study variation by place and age

SF Reardon - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2019‏ - rsfjournal.org
I use standardized test scores from roughly forty-five million students to describe the
temporal structure of educational opportunity in more than eleven thousand school districts …