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Direct linkMaul, Andrew – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2015
Briggs and Peck [in "Using Learning Progressions to Design Vertical Scales That Support Coherent Inferences about Student Growth"] call for greater care in the conceptualization of the target attributes of students, or "what it is that is growing from grade to grade." In particular, they argue that learning progressions can…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, Learning, Educational Assessment
Michell, Joel – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2008
Pathology of science occurs when the normal processes of scientific investigation break down and a hypothesis is accepted as true within the mainstream of a discipline without a serious attempt being made to test it and without any recognition that this is happening. It is argued that this has happened in psychometrics: The hypothesis upon which…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Pathology, Item Response Theory, Psychology
