Browsing by Subject "Texas Assessment of Academic Skills"
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Item A study of the effect school facility conditions have on student achievement(2003-05) Lair, Susan Brooks; Phelps, Donald; Robles, BarbaraItem The predictive validity of exit level TAAS scores in determining the academic success of Texas African American students(Texas Tech University, 2002-05) Yearwood, Harold B.The purpose of the study was to examine the vahdity of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) test in predicting academic success for high school Afiican American senior students in a school district in Texas, using cumulative high school grade point average at the end of the senior year (CGPA) as a criterion measure. The predictor variables are exit level TAAS scores in writing, and reading, and mathematics; gender; and socioeconomic status (SES); the criterion variable is CGPA. According to early research reports on standardized testing issues, criterion referenced testing has emerged because of three factors (National Education Association, 1977). First, there is a strong and rising dissatisfaction with the way tests are used for providing sanctions against schools, teachers, and administrators. Second, there is the perspective that traditional standardized tests are inadequate for diagnostic and instructional purposes. Third, there is some clamor regarding the evaluation of teachers and teaching using criterion-referenced tests. However, in Texas the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has adopted policies to restructure schools where a predetermined percentage of children do not score above the TAAS state minimum score level. TAAS is a criterion-referenced test that tests students in the three areas of writing, reading, and mathematics.