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Download full textAnderson, Beverly L.; And Others – 1980
This booklet addresses the role of testing in today's public education system, and presents a series of questions and answers which will be of particular interest to school board members, legislators, lawyers and journalists. These questions are grouped into two major categories: (1) test purposes and users; and (2) current testing issues. Current…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Lay People
Nitko, Anthony J. – 1980
A framework, or classification scheme, is provided for displaying the spectrum of criterion-referenced tests. This framework illustrates that no single type of test can be identified as the absolute prototype criterion-referenced test. It is shown that over the past 115 years criterion-referenced testing has grown to be a many-faceted concept, its…
Descriptors: Classification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity
