Re: The choice of standardized tests

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/8/2006 6:37:21 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
gbracey@starpower.net writes:

When did  Title I stop requiring evaluation data be in NCE's. 
Kass Talmadge  developed the idea with the hope (unrealized) of
providing education with  an equal intervation scale, but I
don't recall when they were no longer  mandated.

Jerry



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Those equal "intervation" scales were certainly unique.  In  any event, one 
of the hopes for NCEs was that they would allow appropriate  agggregation of 
results of different tests on different kids in different grades  in differrent 
schools in different states taken at different times to be  aggregated to a 
single number for reading and a single number for math that  could then be 
presented to Congress as the "effect" of Title I.  
 
They were used up through the time that Title 1 used fall-spring testing  and 
then abandoned it.  Under the improvement rules in effect at that  time, 
districts had to set a fall-spring AYP target in  NCEs.  They were certainly gone 
in NCLB, but I don't remember exactly  how they were used in IASA.
 
Art