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Wise, Steven L. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2019
The identification of rapid guessing is important to promote the validity of achievement test scores, particularly with low-stakes tests. Effective methods for identifying rapid guesses require reliable threshold methods that are also aligned with test taker behavior. Although several common threshold methods are based on rapid guessing response…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Identification, Reaction Time, Reliability
Wise, Lauress L. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
The articles in this special issue make two important contributions to our understanding of the impact of accommodations on test score validity. First, they illustrate a variety of methods for collection and rigorous analyses of empirical data that can supplant expert judgment of the impact of accommodations. These methods range from internal…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Educational Assessment, Test Reliability, Learning Disabilities
Webb, Norman L. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2007
A process for judging the alignment between curriculum standards and assessments developed by the author is presented. This process produces information on the relationship of standards and assessments on four alignment criteria: Categorical Concurrence, Depth of Knowledge Consistency, Range of Knowledge Correspondence, and Balance of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Academic Standards, Item Analysis, Interrater Reliability

Feldt, Leonard S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2002
Considers the situation in which content or administrative considerations limit the way in which a test can be partitioned to estimate the internal consistency reliability of the total test score. Demonstrates that a single-valued estimate of the total score reliability is possible only if an assumption is made about the comparative size of the…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Reliability, Scores, Test Construction

Mehrens, William A. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2000
Presents conclusions of an independent measurement expert that the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was constructed according to acceptable professional standards and tests curricular material considered by the Texas Board of Education important for graduates to have mastered. Also supports the validity and reliability of the TAAS and…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Psychometrics, Reliability, Standards