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Direct linkKettler, Ryan J. – Review of Research in Education, 2015
This chapter introduces theory that undergirds the role of testing adaptations in assessment, provides examples of item modifications and testing accommodations, reviews research relevant to each, and introduces a new paradigm that incorporates opportunity to learn (OTL), academic enablers, testing adaptations, and inferences that can be made from…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews, Testing, Testing Accommodations
Download full textNational Assessment Governing Board, 2007
This paper presents the assessment and item specifications for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2009 mathematics assessment. "Chapter Two" contains descriptions of the five major content areas of mathematics (Number Properties and Operations, Measurement, Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, and…
Descriptors: Test Items, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, National Competency Tests
Sireci, Stephen G. – 1995
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the seemingly discrepant views of test theorists and test developers about terminology related to the evaluation of test content. The origin and evolution of the concept of content validity are traced, and the concept is reformulated in a way that emphasizes the notion that content domain definition,…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Content Validity, Definitions, Item Analysis
Peer reviewedSchnucker, Robert V. – History Teacher, 1991
Describes the development of a history assessment test by Northeast Missouri State University (Kirksville) faculty. Discusses content, problems with design and cooperation, and theories of assessment testing. Includes sample questions demonstrating the cube plan, a technique that involves using a single question to measure three learning…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Wiliam, Dylan – Review of Research in Education, 2010
The idea that validity should be considered a property of inferences, rather than of assessments, has developed slowly over the past century. In early writings about the validity of educational assessments, validity was defined as a property of an assessment. The most common definition was that an assessment was valid to the extent that it…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Validity, Inferences, Construct Validity
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1990
To facilitate the proper technical use of the test scores obtained from the administration of the tests, the curricular and psychometric characteristics of the tests are described in a series of technical manuals. This manual, the seventh in the series, contains a description of the characteristics of the North Carolina Test of Chemistry. The test…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Curriculum Evaluation, Science Education, Secondary Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1990
To facilitate the proper technical use of the test scores obtained from the administration of the tests, the curricular and psychometric characteristics of the tests are described in a series of technical manuals. This manual, the eighth in the series, contains a description of the characteristics of the North Carolina Test of Geometry. This paper…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Geometry, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills
