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Download full textBond, Lloyd – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2005
The writer calls attention to the many traps associated with one of the most frequent uses of assessment: the technical difficulties of measuring changes in learning over time. Noting that psychometricians don't like "change" or "difference" scores in statistical analyses because they tend to have lower reliability than the original measures…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Teacher Education Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Reliability
Peer reviewedMadaus, George F.; Kellaghan, Thomas – Social Education, 1992
Discusses plans for a national testing program and its possible effects on social studies. Expresses concern that the proposed plans avoid the issues of how and by whom curricular content is to be developed and how diversity will be accommodated. Includes discussion of the purposes, fairness, and problems inherent in the American Achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
