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Utility and Validity of NAEP Linking Efforts
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Linn, Robert L.; McLaughlin, Donald; Thissen, David – American Institutes for Research, 2009
There are a number of practical situations in which it would be desirable to be able to use the results of the administration of one assessment to estimate what the results would have been if another assessment had been administered. Test linking refers to the idea that results obtained from the administration of one test might be used to infer…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Equated Scores, Psychometrics, Test Validity
Two Weak Spots in the Practice of Criterion-referenced Measurement.
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Linn, Robert L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1982
Confusion in the terminology used in criterion-referenced measurement specifications and development and standard setting and the attendant role of cut-off scores are shown to need practical clarification through psychometric research on test applications and consequences. (CM)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Measurement Objectives