Understanding "poor" performance : Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test (PACT) scores and poverty

Hawkins, H. Gregory; Jim Self Center on the Future

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Understanding "poor" performance : Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test (PACT) scores and poverty

Hawkins, H. Gregory
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Jim Self Center on the Future

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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.

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2001-07-25

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Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test, Poor children--Education--South Carolina, Educational tests and measurements--South Carolina--Statistics

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https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/47656

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