Technical Brief

Technical Brief on the Statistical Model Used in the
2000 Rhode Island School and District Reports
(School Year 1998-99)

Dennis W. Cheek, Minsuk Shim,
Julia Steiny, Stephen Brand

1. Introduction
2. Information Works!
3. Statistically Generated Performance Range Versus
Actual Performance
4. Factors Associated with Student Achievement
5. Statistical Significance
6. Correlation
7. Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
8. Multiple Regression and the RI Model:
Table 1, Table 2, Table 3
9. Predicting Individual School Performance
10. A Visualization of the RI Model
11. Footnotes

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