IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/jedbes/v17y1992i2p191-204.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Chapter 6: Interpreting Scales Through Scale Anchoring

Author

Listed:
  • Albert E. Beaton
  • Nancy L. Allen

Abstract

The major purpose of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is to provide a means to compare groups of students both across and within assessment years. A complementary purpose of NAEP is to provide information about what these groups of students know and can do. This purpose has been addressed using the scale anchoring techniques described in this chapter. Scale anchoring involves a statistical component that identifies items that discriminate between successive points on the proficiency scale using specific item characteristics. It also involves a consensus component in which identified items are used by subject-area and educational experts to provide an interpretation of what groups of students at or close to the selected scale points know and can do.

Suggested Citation

  • Albert E. Beaton & Nancy L. Allen, 1992. "Chapter 6: Interpreting Scales Through Scale Anchoring," Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, , vol. 17(2), pages 191-204, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jedbes:v:17:y:1992:i:2:p:191-204
    DOI: 10.3102/10769986017002191
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/10769986017002191
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.3102/10769986017002191?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    NAEP; assessment; scaling;
    All these keywords.

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:jedbes:v:17:y:1992:i:2:p:191-204. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.