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Bruno D. Zumbo – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
In line with the journal volume's theme, this essay considers lessons from the past and visions for the future of test validity. In the first part of the essay, a description of historical trends in test validity since the early 1900s leads to the natural question of whether the discipline has progressed in its definition and description of test…
Descriptors: Test Theory, Test Validity, True Scores, Definitions
Mitchell, Alison M.; Truckenmiller, Adrea; Petscher, Yaacov – Communique, 2015
As part of the Race to the Top initiative, the United States Department of Education made nearly 1 billion dollars available in State Educational Technology grants with the goal of ramping up school technology. One result of this effort is that states, districts, and schools across the country are using computerized assessments to measure their…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, Testing, Efficiency
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Royal, Kenneth D.; Gilliland, Kurt O.; Kernick, Edward T. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2014
Any examination that involves moderate to high stakes implications for examinees should be psychometrically sound and legally defensible. Currently, there are two broad and competing families of test theories that are used to score examination data. The majority of instructors outside the high-stakes testing arena rely on classical test theory…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Scoring, Evaluation Methods, Anatomy
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Mislevy, Robert J. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2012
This article presents the author's observations on Neil Dorans's NCME Career Award Address: "The Contestant Perspective on Taking Tests: Emanations from the Statue within." He calls attention to some points that Dr. Dorans made in his address, and offers his thoughts in response.
Descriptors: Testing, Test Reliability, Psychometrics, Scores
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Dorans, Neil J. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2012
Views on testing--its purpose and uses and how its data are analyzed--are related to one's perspective on test takers. Test takers can be viewed as learners, examinees, or contestants. I briefly discuss the perspective of test takers as learners. I maintain that much of psychometrics views test takers as examinees. I discuss test takers as a…
Descriptors: Testing, Test Theory, Item Response Theory, Test Reliability
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Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2009
A good test is one that has at least three qualities: reliability, or the precision with which a test measures what it is supposed to measure; validity, i.e., if the test really measures what it is supposed to measure, and practicality, or if the test, no matter how sound theoretically, is practicable in reality. These are the sine qua non for any…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Testing, Language Tests, Item Response Theory
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2009
A good test is one that has at least three qualities: reliability, or the precision with which a test measures what it is supposed to measure; validity, i.e., if the test really measures what it is supposed to measure; and practicality, or if the test, no matter how sound theoretically, is practicable in reality. These are the sine qua non for…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Testing, Language Tests, Item Response Theory
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Chang, Shun-Wen – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
This study evaluates the effects of employing the linear, normalizing, and arcsine transformation methods for constructing scale scores on the Basic Competence Test (BCTEST). Tests in three subject areas (Chinese, English, and Mathematics) were studied using the data of test administrations from 2001 to 2003. The resulting scale scores for each…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Test Theory, True Scores