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Confusing the Messenger with the Message: A Response to Bolon

Author(s) -

Victor L. Willson,

Thomas Kellow

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

education policy analysis archives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1068-2341

DOI - 10.14507/epaa.v10n9.2002

Subject(s) - per capita , psychology , focus (optics) , test (biology) , econometrics , mathematics education , demography , economics , sociology , paleontology , population , physics , optics , biology

The conclusions by Bolon (2001) based on the relationship between per capita income and school mean grade 10 mathematics scores in Massachusetts and on instability in year-to-year mean school scores are criticized by us. Our concerns focus on the uninterpretable covariation of economic condition with test performance and the limitations in interpreting cross-time variability. We agree with Bolon's conclusions but consider the methodology employed inadequate to support them. We suggest alternative requirements and discuss our own previous efforts in this area.

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