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Peer reviewedKane, Michael T. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
A proposed model for the validity of measures of professional competence treats validation as the evaluation of inferences drawn from test scores, focusing on evaluation, generalization, and extrapolation. The model is used to indicate strengths and weaknesses of assessments of professional competence: observations of performance, simulations, and…
Descriptors: Competence, Evaluation Methods, Generalization, Inferences
Download full textRoudabush, Glenn E. – 1974
In this paper, several models for the psychometric nature of criterion-referenced tests are presented and results derived with implications for test construction, reliability and validity measures, and educational decision making. Both dichotomous and continuous underlying abilities to perform are considered. Illustrative data fitting both cases…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
