Measurement Specialists: Motive to Achieve or Motive to Avoid Failure?.

Mehrens, William A.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Measurement Specialists: Motive to Achieve or Motive to Avoid Failure?

Mehrens, William A.

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, v5 n4 p5-10 Win 1986

The Presidential Address at the 1986 National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting argues that measurement specialists have tended to set unrealistic aspirations for the role tests play. The conjunctive decision making model is discussed and the use of data in the conjunctive and compensatory decision making models is examined. (JAZ)

Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Educational Testing, Measurement Objectives, Measurement Techniques, Minimum Competency Testing, Models, Psychological Testing, Psychometrics, Researchers, Test Use, Testing Problems

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