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Comments on Holland and Wainer's "Sources of Uncertainty Often Ignored in Adjusting State Mean SAT Scores for Differential Participation Rates: The Rules of the Game."
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Edwards, Don; Cummings, Cynthia B. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1990
An evolved form of the Edwards and Beckworth (1989) model for probability selection for Scholastic Achievement Test takers using truncated normal distributions is presented. It is shown that the arguments of Holland and Wainer are not sufficient to reject this model. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Models, Participation, Probability
Aligning Policy and Methodology to Achieve Consistent Across-Grade Performance Standards
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Lewis, Daniel M.; Haug, Carolyn A. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2005
In a coherent educational assessment system, the relation between the cut scores across the grades of a content area should reflect the goals of the educational system moderated by the state of the standards within that system. In this article, we discuss the need for consistent cut scores across the grades of a content area; we present and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Testing Programs, Educational Assessment, Standard Setting
Vertically Articulated Performance Standards: Logic, Procedures, and Likely Classification Accuracy
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Ferrara, Steve; Johnson, Eugene; Chen, Wen-Hung – Applied Measurement in Education, 2005
Psychometricians continue to develop and evaluate methods for linking test scores, both horizontally and vertically. This article describes a social moderation process for articulating (i.e., linking) performance standards across grade levels for an operational state assessment program. The researchers used generated data to evaluate the likely…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Scores, Error of Measurement