No Valid Tests
Essentials of Validation
Validation Voyage
Considering Consistency
A Trio of Indicators
100

The way a teacher can see whether their students have memorized the comma usage rules.

What is a test?

100

Identifying and assembling evidence on the accuracy of a test-takers score is this.

What is step one of the validation process?

100

The stakeholders among citizens, parents and teachers who would most likely conduct validation analyses of a new high stakes test.

Who are none?

100

A synonym for reliability.

What is consistency?

100

The third type of reliability evidence besides test-retest evidence and alternate-form evidence.

What is internal consistency evidence?

200

A student's knowledge or skill with math computation may be ___ to the teacher without a test.

What is covert?

200

Another name for a scoring guide.

What is a rubric?

200

What should be avoided by any consultant hired to be a measurement specialist.

What is jargon?

200

Where assessment reliability resides.

What is the test?

200

After the dismal, initial results, Natalie's teacher computed this after conducting a retest of the spelling quiz on Monday.

What is a correlation coefficient?

300

The music student's performance of a violin solo is ___ behavior to inform his teacher.

What is overt?

300

The likelihood that a social studies teacher applies the multi-step validation effort before assigning a DBQ assessment to his 8th graders.

What is very unlikely?

300

This person can be hired to provide plain-language explanations of a test's validity argument.

Who is a measurement specialist?

300

For the new reading test the teacher had to consider the time of the class, the content and other ___. 

What are variables?

300

This is indicated when test-retest reliability coefficients are between .7 and .8.

What are reasonable levels of stability?

400

In assessment validity, an inference considered interchangeable with this term.

What is interpretation?

400

This is applied when the school district asserts the accuracy of a new reading skills test.

What is human judgment?

400

The persuasive evidence that a biology test can distinguish between well taught and poorly taught students.

What is instructional sensitivity?

400

In testing, these do not exist.

What are valid tests?

400

This is determined when a sample group of test takers complete two different forms of the EOG and educators perform a correlation calculation?

What is an alternate-form reliability coefficient?

500

The degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretation of test scores for their proposed usage.

What is validity?

500

Generating this is the third step in the validation process for tests.

What is validity argument?

500

What must accompany a test if it is to be used evaluatively.

What is evidence?

500

This signifies the consistency with which we measure people in education.

What is reliability?

500

This is important when the test is built to measure the mastery of the same thing.

What is internal consistency reliability?

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