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Peer reviewedWardrop, James L.; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1982
A structure for describing different approaches to testing is generated by identifying five dimensions along which tests differ: test uses, item generation, item revision, assessment of precision, and validation. These dimensions are used to profile tests of reading comprehension. Only norm-referenced achievement tests had an inference system…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Testing, Models
