Presentations

Models for Evaluating Grade-to-Grade Growth
by Robert L. Smith & Wendy M. Yen 

Growth Scales and Pathways
by William D. Schafer & Jon S. Twing

Modeling Growth in Student Achievement: Psychometric Considerations, Communicating Growth, and Standards-based Application
by Harold C. Doran

Measurement of Academic Growth of Individual Students Toward Variable and Meaningful Academic Standards
by S. Paul Wright, William L. Sanders, & June C. Rivers

The(Sometimes Harsh) Reality of Longitudinal Student Achievement Modeling
by J.R. Lockwood 

Issues in the Implementation of Longitudinal Growth Models for Student Achievement
by Joseph Stevens & Keith Zvoch 

Bayesian Inference for Some Value-added Productivity Indicators
by Yeow Meng Thum 

Threats to the Validity of Measurement of Achievement Gains
by Laura Hamilton, Daniel McCaffrey, &Daniel Koretz

Using Value Tables to Explicitly Value Student Growth
by Richard Hill, Brian Gong, Scott Marion, Charles DePascale, Jennifer Dunn, & Mary Ann Simpson

Two Methodological Perspectives on the Development of Mathematical Competencies in Young Children: An Application of Continuous & Categorical Latent Variable Modeling
by David Kaplan & Heidi Sweetman 

Cross-Grade Scales in NAEP: Research and Real-Life Experience
by Catherine A. McClellan, John R. Donoghue, Lydia Gladkova, & Xueli Xu 

The hybrid success model:Theory and practice
by G. Gage Kingsbury, & Martha S. McCall

IRT Models to Assess Change Across Repeated Measurements 
by James S. Roberts, & Qianli Ma 

NCLB and Growth Models: In Conflict or in Concert? 
by Susan L. Rigney,&Joseph A. Martineau