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Download full textSchmidgall, Jonathan; Oliveri, Maria Elena; Duke, Trina; Grissom, Elizabeth Carter – ETS Research Report Series, 2019
One of the most critical steps in the test development process is defining the construct, or the knowledge, skills, or abilities, to be assessed. This foundational step provides the basis for initial assumptions about the meaning of test scores and serves as a reference for subsequent validity research. In this paper, we describe the purpose of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Direct linkHaig, Brian D. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
Lee Cronbach once expressed the view that all roads lead to construct validity. In looking to clarify the consensus definition of validity, and its place in assessment, Newton is also led to the troublesome idea of construct validity. To be sure, he addresses other validity issues, but in this commentary, I will restrict my attention to construct…
Descriptors: Validity, Educational Assessment, Construct Validity, Definitions
Newton, Paul E. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
The 1999 "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" defines validity as the degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretations of test scores entailed by proposed uses of tests. Although quite explicit, there are ways in which this definition lacks precision, consistency, and clarity. The history of validity has taught us…
Descriptors: Evidence, Validity, Educational Testing, Risk
Coe, Robert – Research Papers in Education, 2010
Much of the argument about comparability of examination standards is at cross-purposes; contradictory positions are in fact often both defensible, but they are using the same words to mean different things. To clarify this, two broad conceptualisations of standards can be identified. One sees the standard in the observed phenomena of performance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tests, Evaluation Methods, Standards
Newton, Paul E. – Research Papers in Education, 2010
Robert Coe has claimed that three broad conceptions of comparability can be identified from the literature: performance, statistical and conventional. Each of these he rejected, in favour of a single, integrated conception which relies upon the notion of a "linking construct" and which he termed "construct comparability".…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measurement Techniques, Foreign Countries, Tests
Maher, Brendan A.; Gottesman, Irving I. – Psychological Assessment, 2005
The question of the status of cause-and-effect explanations of human behavior that posit physically existing causative factors and those that, on the other hand, posit hypothetical entities in the form of "useful fictions" has a long history. The influence of the works of Jeremy Bentham and Hans Vaihinger, as well as the later influence of Francis…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Influences, Behavior, Theories
