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Similarly, we subtracted the 1998 percent proficient or advanced from the corresponding percent in 2000 (Change 98 to 00). In this way, we created two change scores that did not share a percent for a given year. The correlation between change 97 to 99 and change 98 to 00 for the 734 schools with scores in all four years was -.03 for the ... ................
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