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The Development and Validation of a Scale for Visual Literacy
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Christian Bombara; Ran Duan – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2024
With the widespread use of visuals in the media and the rapid development of visual technologies, media consumers today increasingly face visual information and visual decision-making. Developing visual literacy is thus crucial to empower people to effectively navigate the visual world. This paper uses two studies to describe the development and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Visual Literacy, Psychometrics
Classroom Assessment and Instructional Modes: An Exploration of School-Level Contextualized Psychometric Challenges
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A. Corinne Huggins-Manley; Jing Huang; Jerri-ann Danso; Wei Li; Walter L. Leite – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
The global COVID-19 health pandemic caused major interruptions to educational assessment systems, partially due to shifts to remote learning environments, entering the post-COVID educational world into one that is more open to heterogeneity in instructional and assessment modes for secondary students. In addition, in 2020, educational inequities…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Environment, Educational Change, COVID-19
Classroom Assessment and Instructional Modes: An Exploration of School-Level Contextualized Psychometric Challenges
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A. Corinne Huggins-Manley; Jing Huang; Jerri-ann Danso; Wei Li; Walter L. Leite – Grantee Submission, 2023
The global COVID-19 health pandemic caused major interruptions to educational assessment systems, partially due to shifts to remote learning environments, entering the post-COVID educational world into one that is more open to heterogeneity in instructional and assessment modes for secondary students. In addition, in 2020, educational inequities…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Environment, Educational Change, COVID-19
The Controversy of Consequences
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Twing, Jon S. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
This special issue of "Assessment in Education" contains the type of debate needed about what Cizek (2015) calls a "… lingering flaw in the concept of validity…." Some practitioners might not agree that the current theory of validation is flawed. Specifically, the debate Jon Twing is referencing concerns the role of the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Misconceptions, Evidence, Scores
Why Education Practitioners and Stakeholders Should Care about Person Fit in Educational Assessments
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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
Reliability and Validity Evidence for the GED[R] English as a Second Language Test. GED Testing Service[R] Research Studies, 2009-4
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Setzer, J. Carl – GED Testing Service, 2009
The GED[R] English as a Second Language (GED ESL) Test was designed to serve as an adjunct to the GED test battery when an examinee takes either the Spanish- or French-language version of the tests. The GED ESL Test is a criterion-referenced, multiple-choice instrument that assesses the functional, English reading skills of adults whose first…
Descriptors: Language Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Psychometrics, Reading Skills