Online Credit Recovery Assessments and State Policies, 2022-2023

Bloom's taxonomy assessments of Algebra I online credit recovery items from a study vendor in the 2022-23 academic year, alongside coded state regulations from fall 2023. These data were analyzed for a JPAM Policy Insights publication titled 'Failing to Learn from Failure in Online Credit Recovery Assessments'. The dataset was authored by Carolyn Heinrich and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Analyze the cognitive complexity of assessment items based on Bloom's taxonomy classifications.
• Study the relationship between state regulatory policies and online credit recovery program design.
• Benchmark the quality of online Algebra I assessments against educational standards.
• Investigate the availability of answer keys for online assessments and its potential impact.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific JPAM Policy Insights publication, providing academic context.
• Includes two distinct components: item-level assessments and state-level policy coding.
• Assessment data is anchored to the 2022-23 academic year, providing a clear temporal scope.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description does not specify file formats or data size.

Provenance

Source

Research team analysis and state policy coding, hosted by Harvard Dataverse.

Collection Method

Manual assessment using Bloom's taxonomy and coding of state regulations.

Time Range

Assessment items: 2022-23 academic year; State policies: fall 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-05 19:33:50; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States (implied by state regulations).