Facts about Samples, Fantasies about Domains.

Mehrens, William A.

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Publication Date: 1991

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Facts about Samples, Fantasies about Domains.

Mehrens, William A.

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, v10 n2 p23-25 Sum 1991

Cohen and Hyman's response contains several misunderstandings of the original article by Mehrens and Kaminski. One frequently wishes to make inferences to a domain from a test, but teaching a specific performance and testing for that performance does not allow for a domain inference. (SLD)

Descriptors: Cheating, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Inferences, Norm Referenced Tests, Sampling, Selection, Test Coaching, Test Interpretation, Test Items, Test Results, Test Wiseness

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