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Direct linkKulikowich, Jonna M. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
Operating from multiple literature bases in cognitive psychology, mathematics education, and theoretical and applied psychometrics, Schilling, Hill and their colleagues provide a systemic approach to studying the validity of scores of mathematical knowledge for teaching. This system encompasses an array of task formats and methodologies. The…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Learning Theories, Teaching Methods, Construct Validity
Hill, Heather C. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
The author offers some thoughts on commentator's reactions to the substance of the measures, particularly those about measuring teacher learning and change, based on the major uses of the measures, and because this is a significant challenge facing test development as an enterprise. If teacher learning results in more integrated knowledge or…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Tests, Measurement, Faculty Development
Lucas, Samuel R.; Beresford, Lauren – Review of Research in Education, 2010
Education names and classifies individuals. This result seems unavoidable. For example, some students will graduate, and some will not. Those who graduate will be "graduates"; those who do not graduate will be labeled otherwise. The only way to avoid such labeling is to fail to make distinctions of any kind. Yet education is rife with…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Inferences
Schilling, Stephen – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
In this article, the author echoes his co-author's and colleague's pleasure (Hill, this issue) at the thoughtfulness and far-ranging nature of the comments to their initial attempts at test validation for the mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) measures using the validity argument approach. Because of the large number of commentaries they…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Persuasive Discourse, Educational Testing, Measurement
Schmidtlein, Frank A. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2004
The current interest in governmental assessment and accountability practices appears to result from:(1) an emerging view of higher education as an "industry"; (2) concerns about efficient resource allocation; (3) a lack of trust ade between government institutional officials; (4) a desire to reduce uncertainty in government/higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Information Systems, Resource Allocation
Download full textGarrison, Mark J. – Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 2004
The author of this article challenges a common assumption made by both critics and defenders of standardized-testing technology (or psychometry), namely that standardized tests "measure" something (culture, ability, etc.). It argues that psychometric practice cannot be classified as a form of measurement and instead is best understood as…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Social Values, Psychometrics, Standardized Tests
