Kentucky Department of Education

The purpose of this technical report is to provide information about the technical characteristics of the 1999 Mid-point of the Interim Accountability Cycle of CATS.

1999 Technical Report Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Test Specifications
Chapter 3 Test Development Process
Chapter 4 Item Analysis
Chapter 5 Test Administration
Chapter 6 Scoring
Chapter 7A Arts & Humanities Weighted Standard Error Curves across all Grades and Test Forms SE = 17.73 SE = 9.36 SE = 61.49
Chapter 7B Weighted Raw Score to Scale Score Tables