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The Fallacies of Testing.
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Farr, Roger – 1970
Three major points covered by this report are (1) What are the demands for reading assessment and how have the demands increased?; (2) How adequately do present standardized reading tests meet these demands?; and (3) What possible approaches exist for developing assessment procedures which meet these demands? An extreme interest in finding out how…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Reading Level, Reading Tests, Standardized Tests
The Effects of Test Item Validity on Total Test Reliability and Validity.
Farr, Roger; Smith, Carl B. – 1969
The effects of test-item selection on total test reliability and validity were investigated. It was posited that in a reading comprehension test, the knowledge displayed by the examinees is of interest only as it is a valid measure of how much a student learned from reading or comprehending a stimulus paragraph. Selection of items solely on the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, High School Students, Information Theory