Re: Composite scoring or short-change con?

[Kenneth Bernstein <kber@earthlink.net>]

You are NOT going to be ablt to make the kind of determination you want, since waht the state is releasing is the scaled scores, and as far as I know, the raw scores relating to those sclaed scores are not publicly available.

Which would be very interesting for the 2003 LSN Government test, for which i was the test adminstrator for over 300 kids.

We have 6 different forms of the test.   I cannot talk about specifics on questions, but I can talk about structure.

The forms had varying numbers of the different format questions   Selected Repsonse (multiple Choice), Brief Constructed Rresponse (paragraph) and Extended Constructed Response (essay).

To put it simply, without even talking about SRS, one form had 5 BCRs and one ECR, while another had NO ECRR and 13 BCRs.

I'm still trying to find out how these tests can be considered functionally equivalent, but so far I have seen no explanation.

Ken Bernstein

BTW  the proposed cut score was, if I remember, a 424.

In my talented and gifted kids, i think I had something like 69 out of 89 pass

in my comprehnesive level kids I think I had 29 out of 61 pass  (or my lower level kids "passed" at just about the overall state level).

A couple of quick notes   --- none of the TAG kids who did not "pass" had higher than a C in my class

of the Comprehensive kids who 'failed", only 2 had a C or a B with me, and both of those have trouble with writing essays   -   both had, if memory serves, the forms with the 13 BCRsw, which siumply put was unfair to them.   I also had a total of 5 kids who miseed passing by one or two points on the scaled score.



ken Bernstein

Kenneth J. Bernstein