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Wang, Shudong; Jiao, Hong – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2009
In practice, vertical scales have been continually used to measure students' achievement progress across several grade levels and have been considered very challenging psychometric procedures. Recently, such practices have been drawing many criticisms. The major criticisms focus on dimensionality and construct equivalence of the latent trait or…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
Nering, Michael L.; Bay, Luz G.; Meijer, Rob R. – 2000
In state assessment programs in which performance has no real immediate consequence for the individual examinee, the issue of examinee motivation arises. Some examinees may respond to questions in ways that do not reflect their real knowledge of the test domain. In this study, a new approach was developed to identify students who have responded to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Responses, Scores, State Programs
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Ryan, Katherine – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2002
Proposes a process approach to validity that addresses assessment validation in the context of high-stakes assessment. This approach includes a test evaluator or validator who considers the perspectives of five stakeholder groups at four different stages of assessment maturity in relation to six aspects of construct validity. Illustrates each…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluators, High Stakes Tests
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Crocker, Linda – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2002
Introduces the articles of this theme issue focusing on the involvement of key stakeholder groups in the validation of large-scale high-stakes assessments. Each makes a unique but complementary contribution to the understanding of the demands of a comprehensive validation effort. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Stakeholders
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Kane, Michael – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2002
Makes the point that the interpretations and use of high-stakes test scores rely on policy assumptions about what should be taught and the content standards and performance standards that should be applied. The assumptions built into an assessment need to be subjected to scrutiny and criticism if a strong case is to be made for the validity of the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests, Scores
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Haertel, Edward H. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1999
Discusses issues of validity in high-stakes testing, beginning with some purposes of a testing program and proceeding to some underlying assumptions about testing. Suggests four possible studies to address assumptions often ignored by asking various groups of people about testing. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests, Research Needs, Surveys
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Stoneberg, Bert D. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2007
The U.S. Department of Education has not yet published an official guidance document for using NAEP achievement level scores to confirm state testing results. A review of the literature, however, identified four principles that inform the valid use of NAEP scores in a confirming analysis. The principles address the appropriate NAEP statistics to…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Doran, Harold C. – 2001
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine whether the positive consequences associated with high stakes test use and interpretation in Arizona were shared among all grade levels in the elementary school, not just the tested grades. In addition, a curriculum alignment variable was examined to observe its association with curricular…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests
Linn, Robert L. – 2001
Almost every state has in place a state assessment and accountability system. These systems vary greatly in their characteristics but share a common global purpose of improving teaching and learning. Some of the variations in the state systems are discussed and illustrated with examples from selected states. Issues that are critical to the value…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, State Programs
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Ward, Cynthia A. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2000
Discusses the implications of the "GI Forum v. Texas Education Agency" (2000) decision supporting the use of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills for other state assessment programs. Notes that the legal success of the state test in Texas was not due merely to good fortune, but to the test's adherence to legally defensible principles.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems
Koretz, Daniel M.; Barron, Sheila I. – 1998
Large gains in scores have been observed over the first years of the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS) program. The extent to which these gains in scores indicate that student learning improved was evaluated. Previous studies have suggested that KIRIS score gains might be appreciably inflated, something that might result…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, Scores, State Programs
Chromy, James R. – 2003
This study addressed statistical techniques that might ameliorate some of the sampling problems currently facing states with small populations participating in State National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments. The study explored how the application of finite population correction factors to the between-school component of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Sample Size, Sampling
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 2002
In 1998, the Kentucky legislature made adjustments to the assessment and accountability system established by the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 to create a new system, the Commonwealth Accountability and Testing System (CATS). The Kentucky Core Content Tests (KCCT) are a component of CATS. KCCT assessments are given in grades 4, 5, 7, 8,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Portfolio Assessment, Reliability
Miles, Carol A.; Lee, Curtis – 2002
When the drive to develop and administer tests comes from a public call for accountability in a profession, from the government's response to this call, or from politicians attempting to identify a hot issue, it may be said that the test must first have political validity in order to be implemented. Only after this political validity has been…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Political Influences, Psychometrics
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1998
Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) assessments are criterion-referenced performance tests designed, developed, and implemented by the Maryland State Department of Education in collaboration with classroom teachers and other Maryland educators. MSPAP is the major strategy for implementing Maryland's educational reform…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Implementation, Reliability, Scoring
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