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How Out-of-Level Testing Affects the Psychometric Quality of Test Scores. Out-of-Level Testing Report 2.

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Bielinski, John; Thurlow, Martha; Minnema, Jane; Scott, Jim – 2000

This report is a review and analysis of the psychometric literature on the topic of out-of-level testing. Out-of-level testing refers to the practice of using a level of the test other than the test taken by most of the students in a student's current grade level. Much of the research on out-of-level testing was conducted in the 1970s and 1980s,…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, Error of Measurement

A Multivariate Generalizability Analysis of the 1989 and 1990 AAP Mathematics Test Forms with Respect to the Table of Specifications.

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Colton, Dean A. – 1993

Tables of specifications are used to guide test developers in sampling items and maintaining consistency from form to form. This paper is a generalizability study of the American College Testing Program (ACT) Achievement Program Mathematics Test (AAP), with the content areas of the table of specifications representing multiple dependent variables.…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Error of Measurement, Generalizability Theory