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Publication Date: 2021
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Reviewing the Test Reviews: Quality Judgments and Reviewer Agreements in the Mental Measurements Yearbook
Hogan, Thomas; DeStefano, Marissa; Gilby, Caitlin; Kosman, Dana; Peri, Joshua
Applied Measurement in Education, v34 n2 p75-84 2021
Buros' "Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY)" has provided professional reviews of commercially published psychological and educational tests for over 80 years. It serves as a kind of conscience for the testing industry. For a random sample of 50 entries in the "19th MMY" (a total of 100 separate reviews) this study determined the level of qualitative judgment rendered by reviewers and the consistency of those independent reviewers in rendering judgments. Judgments of quality distributed themselves almost uniformly from very good to very bad across the 100 reviews. Agreement among reviewers for a given test was positive but relatively weak. We explore implications of the results and suggest follow-up investigations.
Descriptors: Test Reviews, Interrater Reliability, Psychological Testing, Educational Testing, Value Judgment
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