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Next Steps for Research
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Future Research Questions
Are we accurately identifying students at risk of failing the new statewide assessments?
- The well-established statistical procedures applied by ATI are anticipated to be similarly effective in forecasting performance on the new statewide assessments once cut scores for those assessments have been established.
- Districts/charters can use the risk information provided by locally designed Galileo assessments to identify students in need of additional instruction and intervention.
- ATI will continue to conduct research on an annual basis to help districts/charters evaluate the predictive validity and forecasting accuracy of their local assessments.
How do new approaches to assessment affect the measurement of student ability?
- Future research should evaluate how the new approaches to assessment planned for the new statewide assessments may affect the measurement of student ability.
- Well-established IRT models (e.g., graded response models) are already available to support the analysis of many innovative item types. In fact, ATI has been conducting IRT analyses for years that include student responses to innovative item types including constructed-response and technology-enhanced items.
- Multi-dimensional IRT analyses can be conducted to evaluate whether innovative item types contribute to the measurement of student ability in a similar way to traditional selected-response items.
Has the performance of Arizona students been affected by the transition to AZCCRS and new statewide assessments?
- Once data from comparable student samples are available, research can be conducted to establish the relationship between student mastery of older AZ standards (as measured by passing the AIMS assessment) and student mastery of AZCCRS (as measured by passing the new statewide assessment).
- This research will need to be conducted in a rigorous manner to minimize the effect of potential confounds (e.g., cohort effects, fidelity of implementation of AZCCRS instruction) and results should be interpreted cautiously to avoid drawing inappropriate conclusions.
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