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Understanding "poor" performance : Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test (PACT) scores and poverty
Hawkins, H. Gregory Jim Self Center on the Future
Hawkins, H. Gregory
Jim Self Center on the Future
Abstract
This report briefly reviews the movement toward standardized testing
systems and the relationship between student poverty and test performance, followed by a
presentation of school-level performance on the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test
(PACT) in South Carolina that accounts for the effects of poverty. It concludes with a
set of policy implications and recommendations.
Issue Date
2001-07-25
Keywords
Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test, Poor children--Education--South Carolina, Educational tests and measurements--South Carolina--Statistics
Type
Text
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Copyright status determined to be in the public domain on April 27, 2020 by United States Supreme Court ruling (Georgia et al., Petitioners v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. : 590 U.S.__(2020))
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