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Direct linkNewton, Paul E.; Shaw, Stuart D. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
The ability to convey shared meaning with minimal ambiguity is highly desirable for technical terms within disciplines and professions. Unfortunately, there is no widespread professional consensus over the meaning of the word "validity" as it pertains to educational and psychological testing. After illustrating the nature and extent of…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Validity, Ambiguity (Semantics), Psychological Testing
Beckmann, Nadin; Beckmann, Jens F.; Elliott, Julian G. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
This study takes an individual differences' perspective on performance feedback effects in psychometric testing. A total of 105 students in a mainstream secondary school in North East England undertook a cognitive ability test on two occasions. In one condition, students received item-specific accuracy feedback while in the other (standard…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Psychological Testing, Goal Orientation
Peer reviewedBracken, Bruce A. – Journal of School Psychology, 1988
Notes that significantly different results frequently exist between tests that purport to measure the same skill when the same child is tested on both instruments. Considers discrepancies related to examinee, examiner, examinee-examiner interactions, environment, and psychometric characteristics of the tests employed. Cites 10 major psychometric…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Individual Differences, Psychological Evaluation, Psychological Testing
