Browsing by Author "Yee, Darrick Shen-Wei"
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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 ... -
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 ...