Browsing by Author "Ho, Andrew"
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Accuracy, Transparency, and Incentives: Contrasting Criteria for Evaluating Growth Models.
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Big Data Analysis in Higher Education: Promises and Pitfalls
Dede, Christopher J.; Ho, Andrew Dean; Mitros, Piotr (2016)The grand challenge in data-intensive research and analysis in higher education is to find the means to extract knowledge from the extremely rich data sets being generated today and to distill this into usable information ... -
Castles in the Clouds: The Irrelevance of Vertical Scales for Most Practical Concerns
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The Dependence of Growth-Model Results on Proficiency Cut Scores
Ho, Andrew Dean; Lewis, Daniel M.; Farris, Jason L. MacGregor (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)States participating in the Growth Model Pilot Program reference individual student growth against “proficiency” cut scores that conform with the original No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Although achievement results from ... -
Descriptive Statistics for Modern Test Score Distributions: Skewness, Kurtosis, Discreteness, and Ceiling Effects
Ho, Andrew Dean; Yu, C (SAGE Publications, 2014)Many statistical analyses benefit from the assumption that unconditional or conditional distributions are continuous and normal. Over fifty years ago in this journal, Lord (1955) and Cook (1959) chronicled departures from ... -
Discrepancies Between Score Trends from NAEP and State Tests: A Scale-Invariant Perspective
Ho, Andrew Dean (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)State test score trends are widely interpreted as indicators of educational improvement. To validate these interpretations, state test score trends are often compared to trends on other tests such as the National Assessment ... -
Discreteness Causes Bias in Percentage-Based Comparisons: A Case Study From Educational Testing
Yee, Darrick Shen-Wei; Ho, Andrew Dean (Informa UK Limited, 2015)Discretizing continuous distributions can lead to bias in parameter estimates. We present a case study from educational testing that illustrates dramatic consequences of discreteness when discretizing partitions differ ... -
The Epidemiology of Modern Test Score Use: Anticipating Aggregation, Adjustment, and Equating
Ho, Andrew Dean (Informa UK Limited, 2013) -
ER22x: JusticeX: Spring 2013 Course Report
Reich, Blair Justin Fire; Nesterko, Sergiy O; Seaton, Daniel Thomas; Mullaney, Tommy Philip; Waldo, James H.; Chuang, Isaac; Ho, Andrew Dean (2014)ER22x was offered as a HarvardX course in Spring 2013 on edX, a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). It was taught by Professor Michael Sandel. The report was prepared by researchers external to the course ... -
Estimating Achievement Gaps from Test Scores Reported in Ordinal "Proficiency" Categories
Ho, Andrew Dean; Reardon, Sean F. (2012)Test scores are commonly reported in a small number of ordered categories. Examples of such reporting include state accountability testing, Advanced Placement tests, and English proficiency tests. This paper introduces ... -
Final report on the evaluation of the Growth Model Pilot Project
Hoffer, Thomas B.; Hedberg, E. C.; Brown, Kevin L.; Halverson, Marie L.; Reid-Brossard, Paki; Ho, Andrew Dean; Furgol, Katherine (2011) -
HarvardX and MITx: The First Year of Open Online Courses, Fall 2012-Summer 2013
Ho, Andrew Dean; Reich, Blair Justin Fire; Nesterko, Sergiy O; Seaton, Daniel Thomas; Mullaney, Tommy Philip; Waldo, James H.; Chuang, Isaac (2014)HarvardX and MITx are collaborative institutional efforts between Harvard University and MIT to enhance campus-based education, advance educational research, and increase access to online learning opportunities worldwide. ... -
Heroesx: The Ancient Greek Hero: Spring 2013 Course Report
Reich, Blair Justin Fire; Emanuel, Jeffrey P.; Nesterko, Sergiy O; Seaton, Daniel Thomas; Mullaney, Tommy Philip; Waldo, James H.; Chuang, Isaac; Ho, Andrew Dean (2014)CB22x: The Ancient Greek Hero, was offered as a HarvardX course in Spring 2013 on edX, a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). It was taught by Professor Greg Nagy. The report was prepared by researchers external ... -
PH207x: Health in Numbers and PH278x: Human Health and Global Environmental Change: 2012-2013 Course Report
Reich, Blair Justin Fire; Nesterko, Sergiy O; Seaton, Daniel Thomas; Mullaney, Tommy Philip; Waldo, James H.; Chuang, Isaac; Ho, Andrew Dean (2014)In the 2012-2013 academic year, the first two Harvard School of Public Health courses were offered through HarvardX on the edX platform: PH207x: Health in Numbers and PH278x: Human Health and Global Environmental Change. ... -
Response switching and self-efficacy in Peer Instruction classrooms
Miller, Kelly Anne; Schell, Julie; Ho, Andrew Dean; Lukoff, Brian; Mazur, Eric (American Physical Society (APS), 2015)Peer Instruction, a well-known student-centered teaching method, engages students during class through structured, frequent questioning and is often facilitated by classroom response systems. The central feature of any ... -
A Three-Study Examination of Test-Based Accountability Metrics
Yee, Darrick (2017-05-08)Recent state and federal policy initiatives have led to the development of a multitude of statistics intended to measure school performance. Of these, statistics constructed from student test scores number among both the ... -
Variety and Drift in the Functions and Purposes of Assessment in K-12 Education.
Ho, Andrew Dean (2014)