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Coggeshall, Whitney Smiley – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2021
The continuous testing framework, where both successful and unsuccessful examinees have to demonstrate continued proficiency at frequent prespecified intervals, is a framework that is used in noncognitive assessment and is gaining in popularity in cognitive assessment. Despite the rigorous advantages of this framework, this paper demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Classification, Accuracy, Testing, Failure
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Lewis, Jennifer; Sireci, Stephen G. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
This module is designed for educators, educational researchers, and psychometricians who would like to develop an understanding of the basic concepts of validity theory, test validation, and documenting a "validity argument." It also describes how an in-depth understanding of the purposes and uses of educational tests sets the foundation…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Tests, Testing Problems, Faculty Development
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Sinharay, Sandip – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
Administrative problems such as computer malfunction and power outage occasionally lead to missing item scores, and hence to incomplete data, on credentialing tests such as the United States Medical Licensing examination. Feinberg compared four approaches for reporting pass-fail decisions to the examinees with incomplete data on credentialing…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, High Stakes Tests, Credentials, Test Items
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Kim, Sooyeon; Walker, Michael E. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
Test equating requires collecting data to link the scores from different forms of a test. Problems arise when equating samples are not equivalent and the test forms to be linked share no common items by which to measure or adjust for the group nonequivalence. Using data from five operational test forms, we created five pairs of research forms for…
Descriptors: Ability, Tests, Equated Scores, Testing Problems
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Newton, Paul E. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
Educational assessment involves eliciting, transmitting, and receiving information concerning the level of proficiency of a learner in a specified domain. With that in mind, it is perhaps surprising that the literature seems to make very little use of the signal processing metaphor. The present article begins by making a general case for greater…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluative Thinking, Test Validity
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Skaggs, Gary; Hein, Serge F.; Wilkins, Jesse L. M. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
In test-centered standard-setting methods, borderline performance can be represented by many different profiles of strengths and weaknesses. As a result, asking panelists to estimate item or test performance for a hypothetical group study of borderline examinees, or a typical borderline examinee, may be an extremely difficult task and one that can…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Cutting Scores, Testing Problems, Profiles
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Angela Johnson; Elizabeth Barker; Marcos Viveros Cespedes – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
Educators and researchers strive to build policies and practices on data and evidence, especially on academic achievement scores. When assessment scores are inaccurate for specific student populations or when scores are inappropriately used, even data-driven decisions will be misinformed. To maximize the impact of the research-practice-policy…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Inclusion, Evaluation Methods, Error of Measurement
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Leventhal, Brian C.; Grabovsky, Irina – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
Standard setting is arguably one of the most subjective techniques in test development and psychometrics. The decisions when scores are compared to standards, however, are arguably the most consequential outcomes of testing. Providing licensure to practice in a profession has high stake consequences for the public. Denying graduation or forcing…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Weighted Scores, Test Construction, Psychometrics
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Wyse, Adam E.; Babcock, Ben – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
A common belief is that the Bookmark method is a cognitively simpler standard-setting method than the modified Angoff method. However, a limited amount of research has investigated panelist's ability to perform well the Bookmark method, and whether some of the challenges panelists face with the Angoff method may also be present in the Bookmark…
Descriptors: Standard Setting (Scoring), Evaluation Methods, Testing Problems, Test Items
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Ferrara, Steve – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2017
Test security is not an end in itself; it is important because we want to be able to make valid interpretations from test scores. In this article, I propose a framework for comprehensive test security systems: prevention, detection, investigation, and resolution. The article discusses threats to test security, roles and responsibilities, rigorous…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Program Improvement
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An, Chen; Braun, Henry; Walsh, Mary E. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2018
Making causal inferences from a quasi-experiment is difficult. Sensitivity analysis approaches to address hidden selection bias thus have gained popularity. This study serves as an introduction to a simple but practical form of sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo simulation procedures. We examine estimated treatment effects for a school-based…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Quasiexperimental Design
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Wind, Stefanie A.; Schumacker, Randall E. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2017
The term measurement disturbance has been used to describe systematic conditions that affect a measurement process, resulting in a compromised interpretation of person or item estimates. Measurement disturbances have been discussed in relation to systematic response patterns associated with items and persons, such as start-up, plodding, boredom,…
Descriptors: Measurement, Testing Problems, Writing Tests, Performance Based Assessment
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Arffman, Inga – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2013
The article reviews research and findings on problems and issues faced when translating international academic achievement tests. The purpose is to draw attention to the problems, to help to develop the procedures followed when translating the tests, and to provide suggestions for further research. The problems concentrate on the following: the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Translation, Testing Problems, Test Construction
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Penfield, Randall D.; Gattamorta, Karina; Childs, Ruth A. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Traditional methods for examining differential item functioning (DIF) in polytomously scored test items yield a single item-level index of DIF and thus provide no information concerning which score levels are implicated in the DIF effect. To address this limitation of DIF methodology, the framework of differential step functioning (DSF) has…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Test Items, Evaluation Methods, Scores
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Millman, Jason – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
In providing an alternative view to the previous article by Ward (TM 508 880), the author notes problems associated with adaptive testing, diagnostic testing, testing embedded in instruction, and testing through simulations. (BW)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Simulation, Computer Software
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