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Sampling weighting strategies in causal mediation analysis by Coffman, Donna L, Zhou, Haoyu, Castellano, Katherine E, Schuler, Megan S, McCaffrey, Daniel F

“…Causal mediation analysis plays a crucial role in examining causal effects and causal mechanisms. Yet, limited work has taken into consideration the use of…”
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Developing and using a scalable assessment to measure preservice elementary teachers' content knowledge for teaching about matter by Castellano, Katherine E., Mikeska, Jamie N.

“…There is strong agreement in science teacher education of the importance of teachers' content knowledge for teaching (CKT), which includes their subject matter…”
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Are Large-Scale Test Scores Comparable for At-Home Versus Test Center Testing? by Castellano, Katherine E., Johnson, Matthew S., Lawless, Rene

“…The COVID-19 pandemic led to a proliferation of remote-proctored (or “at-home”) assessments. The lack of standardized setting, device, or in-person proctor…”
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An Investigation Into the Impact of Test Session Disruptions for At-Home Test Administrations by Castellano, Katherine E., Sinharay, Sandip, Hao, Jiangang, Li, Chen

“…In response to the closures of test centers worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several testing programs offered large-scale standardized assessments to…”
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Numerical algorithm for estimating a conditioned symmetric positive definite matrix under constraints by Livne, Oren E., Castellano, Katherine E., McCaffrey, Dan F.

“…Summary We present RCO (regularized Cholesky optimization): a numerical algorithm for finding a symmetric positive definite (PD) n×n$$ n\times n $$ matrix with…”
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Item Response Models for Multiple Attempts With Incomplete Data by Bergner, Yoav, Choi, Ikkyu, Castellano, Katherine E.

“…Allowance for multiple chances to answer constructed response questions is a prevalent feature in computer‐based homework and exams. We consider the use of…”
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Improving Accuracy and Stability of Aggregate Student Growth Measures Using Empirical Best Linear Prediction by Lockwood, J. R., Castellano, Katherine E., McCaffrey, Daniel F.

“…Many states and school districts in the United States use standardized test scores to compute annual measures of student achievement progress and then use…”
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An Exploration of an Improved Aggregate Student Growth Measure Using Data from Two States by Castellano, Katherine E., McCaffrey, Daniel F., Lockwood, J. R.

“…The simple average of student growth scores is often used in accountability systems, but it can be problematic for decision making. When computed using a…”
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Composition, Context, and Endogeneity in School and Teacher Comparisons by Castellano, Katherine E., Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia, Skrondal, Anders

“…Investigations of the effects of schools (or teachers) on student achievement focus on either (1) individual school effects, such as value-added analyses, or…”
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Comparing the Accuracy of Student Growth Measures by Castellano, Katherine E., McCaffrey, Daniel F.

“…Testing programs are often interested in using a student growth measure. This article presents analytic derivations of the accuracy of common student growth…”
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Estimating the Accuracy of Relative Growth Measures Using Empirical Data by Castellano, Katherine E., McCaffrey, Daniel F.

“…The residual gain score has been of historical interest, and its percentile rank has been of interest more recently given its close correspondence to the…”
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Estimating True Student Growth Percentile Distributions Using Latent Regression Multidimensional IRT Models by Lockwood, J. R., Castellano, Katherine E.

“…Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) increasingly are being used in the United States for inferences about student achievement growth and educator effectiveness…”
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Examining Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Answer Changing Behavior on a Content Knowledge for Teaching Science Assessment by Castellano, Katherine E., Mikeska, Jamie N., Moon, Jung Aa, Holtzman, Steven, Gao, Jie, Jiang, Yang

“…Preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) prepare for various standardized assessments, such as the Praxis® licensure assessment. However, there is little research…”
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Examining the Internal Structure Evidence for the Performance Assessment for California Teachers: A Validation Study of the Elementary Literacy Teaching Event for Tier I Teacher Licensure by Duckor, Brent, Castellano, Katherine E., Téllez, Kip, Wihardini, Diah, Wilson, Mark

“…Interpretations for licensure tests involve a series of inferences or a validity argument, leading from the test score to decisions about who is accepted or…”
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Using Heteroskedastic Ordered Probit Models to Recover Moments of Continuous Test Score Distributions From Coarsened Data by Reardon, Sean F., Shear, Benjamin R., Castellano, Katherine E., Ho, Andrew D.

“…Test score distributions of schools or demographic groups are often summarized by frequencies of students scoring in a small number of ordered proficiency…”
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Practical Differences Among Aggregate-Level Conditional Status Metrics: From Median Student Growth Percentiles to Value-Added Models by Castellano, Katherine E., Ho, Andrew D.

“…Aggregate-level conditional status metrics (ACSMs) describe the status of a group by referencing current performance to expectations given past scores. This…”
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Handling Correlations Between Covariates and Random Slopes in Multilevel Models by Bates, Michael David, Castellano, Katherine E., Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia, Skrondal, Anders

“…This article discusses estimation of multilevel/hierarchical linear models that include cluster-level random intercepts and random slopes. Viewing the models…”
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The Accuracy of Aggregate Student Growth Percentiles as Indicators of Educator Performance by Castellano, Katherine E., McCaffrey, Daniel F.

“…Mean or median student growth percentiles (MGPs) are a popular measure of educator performance, but they lack rigorous evaluation. This study investigates the…”
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Flexible Bayesian Models for Inferences From Coarsened, Group-Level Achievement Data by Lockwood, J. R., Castellano, Katherine E., Shear, Benjamin R.

“…This article proposes a flexible extension of the Fay-Herriot model for making inferences from coarsened, group-level achievement data, for example,…”
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Improving the Measurement of Cognitive Skills Through Automated Conversations by Jackson, G. Tanner, Castellano, Katherine E., Brockway, Debra, Lehman, Blair

“…Open-ended, short-answer questions, referred to as constructed responses (CR), allow students to express knowledge and skills through their own words. While…”
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