Ky.'s 1998 NAEP Gains Declared Statistically Significant
A second round of research on the latest federal reading-test results suggests that Kentucky's 1998 scores represented a statistically significant increase over 1994 after all, the U.S. Department of Education announced last week.
By comparing Kentucky 4th graders excluded from the 1998 national assessment with similar students who had taken the state's own reading test, a department-subsidized researcher concluded that Kentucky's gains were as large as originally reported, according to a report from the National Center for Education Statistics.
The impact of excluding students with disabilities from last year's National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test was "modest," writes Lauress L. Wise, the president of the Human Resources Research Organization, an Alexandria, Va., nonprofit group that conducts...
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