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Estimating the Impacts of Educational Interventions Using State Tests or Study-Administered Tests

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Author(s):

Robert B. Olsen, Fatih Unlu, and Cristofer Price: Abt Associates; Andrew P. Jaciw, Empirical Education

Publication date:

October 2011

Publication number:

NCEE 20124016

Summary

State assessments provide a relatively inexpensive and increasingly accessible source of data on student achievement. In the past, rigorous evaluations of educational interventions typically administered standardized tests selected by the researchers ("study-administered tests") to measure student achievement outcomes. Increasingly, researchers are turning to the lower cost option of using state assessments for measures of student achievement.

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