, method that should address
everyone's concerns.
- Eric
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Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:27 PM
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Subject: Re: Reliability and baseball
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Rich:
Next time you need access to the NY Times, try userid = opensesame
with password = opensesame. No muss. No fuss. No spam.
A.Z.
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:12:39 -0400, Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On 13 Sep 2000 05:23:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan
>Zaslavsky) wrote:
>
>>
On 13 Sep 2000 05:23:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan
Zaslavsky) wrote:
> The following article may be of interest to some of you who are trying to
> get across the notion of reliability, particularly those who are teaching
> H.S. or young college students who have recently gone through high-sta
Replying to "Robert J. MacG. Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I
wrote:
It may be necessary to look into the way that the various states have
set up their testing programs in order to appreciate the value of
Rogosa's exercise.
Here are some answers to questions you raise, which seem to me to be
clea
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alan Zaslavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The following article may be of interest to some of you who are trying to
>get across the notion of reliability, particularly those who are teaching
>H.S. or young college students who have recently gone through high-stake
There seems to be a lot of this sort of junk
statistics in the popular press recently. The
problem is, I think, that it gets picked up as
justification for legislation or legal action. I
doubt if there is much than can be done about it
though.
It might be interesting to ask students to
critique
but, this is why we don't use one item on a test ... we use not only
multiple items on tests but, multiple tests ...
this is why we don't use one course in college to decide whether we
graduate a student or not ... we use 40/50 courses ...
that's why we don't let someone graduate (in theory of c
Alan Zaslavsky wrote:
>
> The following article may be of interest to some of you who are trying to
> get across the notion of reliability, particularly those who are teaching
> H.S. or young college students who have recently gone through high-stakes
> achievement/competency testing programs.
The following article may be of interest to some of you who are trying to
get across the notion of reliability, particularly those who are teaching
H.S. or young college students who have recently gone through high-stakes
achievement/competency testing programs. You can also download directly
fro
