Proficiency Assessment for Wyoming Students (PAWS)

The Proficiency Assessment for Wyoming Students (PAWS) is a test which meets the current No Child Left Behind (NCLB) federal law testing requirements for language arts (reading and writing) and mathematics in grades three through eight (3-8) and once in grades ten through twelve (10-12). Students will be tested for science in grades 4, 8, and 11 beginning with the field test in April 2007. Beginning in 2007, Wyoming schools will administer both the early PAWS in January as well as the official PAWS in April. Students may "bank" successful test scores on one or more of the January tests and will not have to take that part of the test again in April.

The Assistance will include:

Chapter 3: Method Section

• Research question clarification
• Develop testable hypotheses
• Select appropriate statistical tests
• Sample size determination
• Power analysis

Chapter 4: Results Section

• Collect, Enter, Code, and Clean Data
• Statistical analysis
• Write Results
• Explain Statistics
• Dissertation Editing
• Use of SPSS, SAS, LISREL, AMOS, package