Validity
When a student writes multiple paragraphs correctly using the RACE strategy, a teacher can infer that the student has mastered the strategy. What is a synonym for infer?
What is interpret?
A synonym of reliability in education.
What is consistency?
True or False: If a measurement specialist is describing validity and you don't understand what he/she is saying- you should keep them to consult.
What is False? Validity shouldn't be difficult to explain.
This is the most significant process in all of educational testing.
What is Assessment Validation.
True or False: Teachers use their interpretation of a student's overt knowledge to draw conclusions about the skills being measured.
What is True?
When a student scores a similar grade at different times on the same test you have...
What is test-retest reliability?
Evidence collected of a score based inference's accuracy.
What is Step 1 in building an educational test's validity argument.
This is a test-specific attribute.
What is reliability?
This hinges on whether a score-based test is both accurate and contributes to a test's purpose.
What is validity?
Students take different forms of the same test and their scores are calculated for the correlation coefficient.
What is alternate-form reliability evidence?
Evidence collected of this inference's suitability for a test's purpose.
What is Step 2 of building an educational test's validity argument.
According to Popham, this type of testing should have purpose-compatible reliability should be mandatory.
What is high-stakes standardized testing?
True or False: The vast majority of testing to evaluate teacher instruction are valid.
What is false
True of False: The kinds of reliability coefficients usually reported for educational tests provide us with consistent estimates for individuals.
What is False? The estimates are consistent for groups, not individuals.
Creating a reasoned validity arguments based on steps one and two.
What is Step 3 in the building of an educational test's validity argument.
The central meaning of this is a reflection of the consistency with which a test is measuring whatever it's measuring.
What is assessment reliability?
This type of test does not exist in education.
What is valid tests?
IF Christopher took a test of 70 questions and got 50 correct, we could say that if he took the tst again he would correctly answer between 45 and 55 questions correctly.
What is Standard Error of Measurement?
This must accompany the evaluation of an educational test.
What is evidence of the test's instructional sensitivity.
On a scale of 1-10, this is my better understanding of reliability and validity in testing.
What is a 6?