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Walker, A. Adrienne – Harvard Educational Review, 2017
In this article, A. Adrienne Walker introduces the concept of person fit to education stakeholders as a source of evidence to inform the trustworthiness of a test score for interpretation and use (validity). Person fit analyses are used in educational measurement research to explore the degree to which a person's test score can be interpreted as a…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Stakeholders, Goodness of Fit, Academic Achievement
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Educational Researcher, 2015
The purpose of this statement is to inform those using or considering the use of value-added models (VAM) about their scientific and technical limitations in the evaluation of educators and programs that prepare teachers. The statement briefly reviews the background and current context of using VAM for evaluations, enumerates specific psychometric…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Teacher Education Programs
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Mislevy, Robert J.; Haertel, Geneva; Cheng, Britte H.; Ructtinger, Liliana; DeBarger, Angela; Murray, Elizabeth; Rose, David; Gravel, Jenna; Colker, Alexis M.; Rutstein, Daisy; Vendlinski, Terry – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2013
Standardizing aspects of assessments has long been recognized as a tactic to help make evaluations of examinees fair. It reduces variation in irrelevant aspects of testing procedures that could advantage some examinees and disadvantage others. However, recent attention to making assessment accessible to a more diverse population of students…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Access to Education, Testing, Psychometrics
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Deane, Paul – Assessing Writing, 2013
This paper examines the construct measured by automated essay scoring (AES) systems. AES systems measure features of the text structure, linguistic structure, and conventional print form of essays; as such, the systems primarily measure text production skills. In the current state-of-the-art, AES provide little direct evidence about such matters…
Descriptors: Scoring, Essays, Text Structure, Writing (Composition)
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Lane, Suzanne; Leventhal, Brian – Review of Research in Education, 2015
This chapter addresses the psychometric challenges in assessing English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities (SWDs). The first section addresses some general considerations in the assessment of ELLs and SWDs, including the prevalence of ELLs and SWDs in the student population, federal and state legislation that requires the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Evaluation Problems, English Language Learners, Disabilities
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Sinharay, Sandip; Haberman, Shelby J. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
In this commentary, the authors discuss some of the issues regarding the use of diagnostic classification models that practitioners should keep in mind. In the authors experience, these issues are not as well known as they should be. The authors then provide recommendations on diagnostic scoring.
Descriptors: Scoring, Reliability, Validity, Classification
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Schoenfeld, Alan H. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
The authors of this volume's stimulus papers have taken on the challenge of developing measures of teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT). This task involves multiple decisions and considerations, including: (1) How does one specify the body of knowledge being assessed? What warrants are offered for those choices?; (2) How does one…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Psychometrics, Test Construction, Evaluation Research
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Gearhart, Maryl – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
Teacher knowledge has been of theoretical and empirical interest for over two decades, and development of measures is overdue. The researchers represented in this volume have been breaking new ground by developing a measure of mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) without guiding precedents, and in the face of differing perspectives on teacher…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Elementary School Mathematics, Teaching Methods, Construct Validity
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Kulikowich, Jonna M. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
Operating from multiple literature bases in cognitive psychology, mathematics education, and theoretical and applied psychometrics, Schilling, Hill and their colleagues provide a systemic approach to studying the validity of scores of mathematical knowledge for teaching. This system encompasses an array of task formats and methodologies. The…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Learning Theories, Teaching Methods, Construct Validity
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Hill, Heather C. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
The author offers some thoughts on commentator's reactions to the substance of the measures, particularly those about measuring teacher learning and change, based on the major uses of the measures, and because this is a significant challenge facing test development as an enterprise. If teacher learning results in more integrated knowledge or…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Tests, Measurement, Faculty Development
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Decker, Scott L. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2008
This article reviews issues involved with using norm-referenced measures within an intervention validity model. Methodological examination of intervention validity has become more important as intervention methodologies have become part of federal legislation. However, current practice and federal guidelines often implicitly portray a dichotomy…
Descriptors: Intervention, Federal Legislation, Validity, Psychometrics
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Schilling, Stephen – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
In this article, the author echoes his co-author's and colleague's pleasure (Hill, this issue) at the thoughtfulness and far-ranging nature of the comments to their initial attempts at test validation for the mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) measures using the validity argument approach. Because of the large number of commentaries they…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Persuasive Discourse, Educational Testing, Measurement
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Camara, Wayne – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2009
The five papers in this special issue of the "Journal of Applied Testing Technology" address fundamental issues of validity when tests are modified or accommodations are provided to English Language Learners (ELL) or students with disabilities. Three papers employed differential item functioning (DIF) and factor analysis and found the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis, English (Second Language), Cognitive Ability
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Hagermoser Sanetti, Lisa M.; Kratochwill, Thomas R. – School Psychology Review, 2009
Treatment integrity (also referred to as "treatment fidelity," "intervention integrity," and "procedural reliability") is an important methodological concerning both research and practice because treatment integrity data are essential to making valid conclusions regarding treatment outcomes. Despite its relationship to validity, treatment…
Descriptors: Intervention, Research Methodology, Models, Validity
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McLeod, Bryce D.; Southam-Gerow, Michael A.; Weisz, John R. – School Psychology Review, 2009
This special series focused on treatment integrity in the child mental health and education field is timely. The articles do a laudable job of reviewing (a) the current status of treatment integrity research and measurement, (b) existing conceptual models of treatment integrity, and (c) the limitations of prior research. Overall, this thoughtful…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Children, Intervention, Research Methodology
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