The National Center on School Choice is funded by the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. The Center exercises national leadership in school choice research, including charter and magnet schools, private school vouchers, teacher recruitment, school management, and state policymaking.

Generalizability of Gains on State Exams

Paul Peterson, Harvard University
William Howell, University of Chicago

This project is analyzing state exams in terms of performance levels and annual gains.  Specifically, we are interested in the individual, sub-group and across-time correlations between performance on the criterion-referenced and norm-referenced tests.    The Florida Department of Education provided data for this research, which includes test scores and demographic information on each individual public school student in the state for the school years 1998-99 through 2002-03. The dataset includes over three million student observations.