The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations. CEPA Working Paper No. 16-08 /

The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation [electronic resource] : Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations. CEPA Working Paper No. 16-08 / Thomas S. Dee, Will Dobbie and Brian A. Jacob.

In this paper, we show that the design and decentralized, school-based scoring of New York's high school exit exams--the Regents Examinations--led to the systematic manipulation of test sores just below important proficiency cutoffs. Our estimates suggest that teachers inflate approximately 40...

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Main Authors: Dee, Thomas S. (Thomas Sean), Dobbie, Will (Author), Jacob, Brian A. (Author), Rockoff, Jonah (Author)
Corporate Author: Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2016.
Subjects:
High Schools.
Exit Examinations.
Scores.
Grade Inflation.
Academic Achievement.
Cutting Scores.
Probability.
Graduation.
African American Students.
White Students.
Racial Differences.
Graduation Rate.
Hispanic American Students.
Educational Attainment.

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