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Download full textLeonard, Jack – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
This paper introduces the new Massachusetts Performance Assessment for Leaders (PAL) and uses critical policy analysis to re-examine the validity evidence (using the 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing and a theory of multicultural validity) for the use and interpretation of the PAL in regards to emerging school leadership.…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Test Validity, High Stakes Tests, School Administration
Peer reviewedHaney, Walt; Fowler, Clarke; Wheelock, Anne; Bebell, Damian; Malec, Nicole – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1999
Using data from state and academic reports, an independent committee of researchers has evaluated the Massachusetts Teacher Tests. Scores are found to be highly unreliable, and the tests are found to contain questionable content. Suspending use of the tests is recommended. (SLD)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, State Programs, Teacher Evaluation
Peer reviewedWainer, Howard – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1999
The critique of the Massachusetts Teacher Tests by W. Haney and others points out some flaws in the tests but ignores the fact that the tests provide some useful information to guide teacher selection decisions. Calls for additional study of these teacher evaluation instruments. (SLD)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, State Programs, Teacher Evaluation
Peer reviewedTaylor, Catherine S.; Nolen, Susan Bobbitt – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1996
The usefulness of traditional concepts of validity and reliability, developed for large-scale assessments, for the classroom context is explored. Alternate frameworks that situate these constructs in teachers' work in classrooms are presented, and their use in an assessment course for preservice teachers is described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning, Models, Preservice Teachers
