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High-Stakes Testing in Education: Science and Practice in K-12 Settings

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Bovaird, James A., Ed.; Geisinger, Kurt F., Ed.; Buckendahl, Chad W., Ed. – APA Books, 2011

Educational assessment and, more broadly, educational research in the United States have entered into an era characterized by a dramatic increase in the prevalence and importance of test score use in accountability systems. This volume covers a selection of contemporary issues about testing science and practice that impact the nation's public…

Descriptors: Graduate Students, Test Use, Student Placement, Educational Research

Standardized Tests Used for Higher Education Admission and Placement in California during 1986. The Second in a Series of Annual Reports Published in Accordance with Senate Bill 1758 (Chapter 1505, Statutes of 1984). Commission Report 87-13.

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California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1987

A report on tests used by California undergraduate institutions and by graduate and professional schools is presented by the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Information is provided on five tests used by undergraduate colleges: the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, the Scholastic…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, College Admission

An Exploratory Study of the Applicability of Item Response Theory Methods to the Graduate Management Admission Test.

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Kingston, Neal; And Others – 1985

A necessary prerequisite to the operational use of item response theory (IRT) in any testing program is the investigation of the feasibility of such an approach. This report presents the results of such research for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Despite the fact that GMAT data appear to violate a basic assumption of the…

Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Computer Software, Correlation, Equated Scores