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HRD-93-2R 1 (1993-03-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackgl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United State. GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Human Resources Division B -252634 March 30, 1993 148850 The Honorable Dale E. Kildee Chairman, Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education Committee on Education and Labor House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter presents information on the extent to which Chapter 1 schools may exit program improvement after 1 year on the basis of sufficient gains in students' achievement- test scores. This phenomenon is known as testing out. Previous studies have reported that a significant proportion of schools identified for program improvement test out 1 year later--often without fully implementing an improvement plan. We recently reported that imprecision associated with the achievement-test scores used to identify schools for program improvement can lead to inaccurate judgements about Chapter 1 program effectiveness.' Our conclusions were based, in part, on a statistical analysis of achievement- test data for Chapter 1 students in one large state. During a briefing of your staff, on January 22, 1993, concerning that report, we agreed to further analyze these data to determine (1) the percentage of schools that would have tested out after 1 year and (2) the extent to which these schools might be inaccurately judged as effective or ineffective because of imprecision in achievement-test scores. We found that depending on the standard used for minimum achieVement-test gains, one-half to three-quarters of the schools in our analysis that would have been identified in one year would also have tested out the following year. However, when we accounted for the imprecision associated with achievement-test scores, we found that a majority of these schools would have been initially identified on the 1Chatter 1 Accountability: Greater Focus on ProQram Goals Needed (GAO/HRD-93-69, Mar. 29, 1993). GAO/HRD-93-2R, Exiting Program Improvement

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