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Tannenbaum, Richard J.; Kane, Michael T. – ETS Research Report Series, 2019
Testing programs are often classified as high or low stakes to indicate how stringently they need to be evaluated. However, in practice, this classification falls short. A high-stakes label is taken to imply that all indicators of measurement quality must meet high standards; whereas a low-stakes label is taken to imply the opposite. This approach…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Testing Programs, Measurement, Evaluation Criteria
Lunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1968
This study is part of a continuing search for measures of divergent thinking and for better predictors of performance in occupational areas depending on such ways of thinking. Traditional predictors of college performance, i.e., high school GPA and tests of verbal and quantitative aptitude have always worked much better estimating success in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Architectural Education, Educational Testing, Higher Education
Haney, Walt; Strenio, Andrew – 1979
A summary, prepared from notes and tape recordings, is presented of the 1979 conference of the National Consortium on Testing. Panel descussions on the following topics are included: (1) introduction; (2) update--recent and upcoming events concerning testing; (3) test preparation and coaching; (4) minimum competency testing; (5) program evaluation…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Confidentiality, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing