Validity and test use: an international dialogue on educational assessment, accountability and equity
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Bingley] United Kingdom Emerald 2013
Ausgabe:First edition
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Beschreibung:"Edited by Madhabi Chatterji"--Cover. - The book compiles three invited chapters based on keynote speeches along with four reaction chapters to each. The chapters were originally presented at an invitational assessment conference held in March, 2012, co-sponsored by the Educational Testing Service, the National Science Foundation, and Teachers College, Columbia University through its Assessment and Evaluation Research Initiative (AERI)
This volume questions the validity issues surrounding educational assessment programs and their appropriate uses in applied contexts. The author breaks new ground in terms of validity theory and practice, offering recommendations, frameworks and assessment solutions that are broadly applicable in different regions
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Global forces and educational assessment--a forward on why we need an international dialogue on validity and test use / Madhabi Chatterji -- Section 1. Validity, Fairness and Testing of Individuals in High Stakes Decision-making Contexts. 2. Validity and Fairness in the Testing of Individuals / Michael Kane -- 3. Standardized Assessments and Implications for Improving Test and Sampling Designs : Applying Kane's Principles for Validation / Alina A. von Davier -- 4. Is Fairness Research Doing Justice? A Modest Proposal for an Alternative Validation Approach in Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Investigations / Kadriye Ercikan and Maria Elena Oliveri -- 5. Fairness and Validity from the Viewpoints of Different Assessment Actors : A French Reaction to Michael Kane's Contribution / Sébastien Georges -- 6. The Gordon Commission's Perspectives on the Future of Assessment : Looking Beyond Kane's View / Edmund W. Gordon --
- Section 2. Validity Issues in Models of Teacher Evaluation and School Accountability. 7. Evaluation-Centred School Improvement : Potential, Prerequisites, and Validity Considerations / Adríe Visscher -- 8. Education, Testing, and Validity: A Nordic Comparative Perspective / Jakob Wandall -- 9. Reflections on rationality, evidence and issues of validity : evaluating schools and teachers / Aaron Pallas -- 10. International parallels in responses to accountability requirements : validity considerations / Drew H. Gitomer -- 11. Addressing validity and other challenges in evaluation-centered school improvement models : possibilities in the Netherlands and Malaysia / Haniza Yon -- Section 3. Validity issues in international large-scale assessment (ILSA) programs. 12. Validity issues in International Large Scale Assessment programs : "Truth or consequences" / Michael J. Feuer --
- 13. International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs and the challenges of consequential validity / Hans Wagemaker -- 14. Validity issues in International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs : thoughts for developing countries / Eduardo Backhoff -- 15. Validity and International Large Scale Assessment programs : a reaction to Feuer's "Truth" and "Consequences" / Valena White Plisko -- 16. Applying Feuer's validation framework in a Canadian context : a look at International Large Scale Assessment programs / Robert Laurie -- 17. Insights, emerging taxonomies, and theories of action towards improving validity / Madhabi Chatterji
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