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Validating Test Score Meaning and Defending Test Score Use: Different Aims, Different Methods
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Cizek, Gregory J. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
Advances in validity theory and alacrity in validation practice have suffered because the term "validity" has been used to refer to two incompatible concerns: (1) the degree of support for specified interpretations of test scores (i.e. intended score meaning) and (2) the degree of support for specified applications (i.e. intended test…
Descriptors: Scores, Definitions, Evaluation Utilization, Data Interpretation
Designing, Evaluating, and Deploying Automated Scoring Systems with Validity in Mind: Methodological Design Decisions
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Rupp, André A. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
This article discusses critical methodological design decisions for collecting, interpreting, and synthesizing empirical evidence during the design, deployment, and operational quality-control phases for automated scoring systems. The discussion is inspired by work on operational large-scale systems for automated essay scoring but many of the…
Descriptors: Design, Automation, Scoring, Test Scoring Machines
Stepping Outside the Normed Sample: Implications for Validity
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Hays, Danica G.; Wood, Chris – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2017
We present considerations for validity when a population outside of a normed sample is assessed and those data are interpreted. Using a career group counseling example exploring life satisfaction changes as evidenced by the Quality of Life Inventory (Frisch, 1994), we showcase qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore how normative data…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Scores, Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction
Five Things Not to Do in Developing Surveys for Assessment in Student Affairs. NASPA Research and Policy Institute Issue Brief
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Sriram, Rishi – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2014
When student affairs professionals assess their work, they often employ some type of survey. The use of surveys stems from a desire to objectively measure outcomes, a demand from someone else (e.g., supervisor, accreditation committee) for data, or the feeling that numbers can provide an aura of competence. Although surveys are effective tools for…
Descriptors: Surveys, Test Construction, Student Personnel Services, Test Use
Reliability and Validity Evidence for the GED[R] English as a Second Language Test. GED Testing Service[R] Research Studies, 2009-4
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Setzer, J. Carl – GED Testing Service, 2009
The GED[R] English as a Second Language (GED ESL) Test was designed to serve as an adjunct to the GED test battery when an examinee takes either the Spanish- or French-language version of the tests. The GED ESL Test is a criterion-referenced, multiple-choice instrument that assesses the functional, English reading skills of adults whose first…
Descriptors: Language Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Psychometrics, Reading Skills
Reporting Test Results for Students with Disabilities and English-Language Learners. Summary of a Workshop (Washington, DC, November 28, 2001).
Koenig, Judith Anderson, Ed. – 2002
Officials with the National Center for Education Statistics asked the National Research Center's Board on Testing and Assessment to convene a workshop to assist them with their decisions about reporting results for accommodating test takers. The day-long workshop brought together four panels of representatives from state assessment offices,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Disabilities, Educational Assessment