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Maas-de Brouwer, T. A. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1986
The use of reporting final examinations in the Netherlands is described. Each October a public report is published by Cito, supplying information about the achieved level of education and describing observed psychometric qualities of the measurement instrument. General information needs are provided by the National Bureau of Statistics. (LMO)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Information Needs
Beaton, Albert E.; Johnson, Eugene G. – 1990
When the Educational Testing Service became the administrator of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 1983, it introduced scales based on item response theory (IRT) as a way of presenting results of the assessment to the general public. Some properties of the scales and their uses are discussed. Initial attempts at presenting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education