Category 1
This concept hinges on whether a score-based inference is both accurate and also contributes to the accomplishment of a particular test's purpose.
What is validity?
This concept refers to the consistency with which we measure whatever we are measuring.
What is assessment reliability?
____________ is key for reliability.
What is consistency?
Step 1 to building a educationally valid test includes evidence collected of a score-based inference' ______________.
What is accuracy?
Test-retest reliability coefficients represent the ___________ with which a test is measuring what it is measuring.
What is stability?
___________ is the core of validity.
What is accuracy?
Step 2 to building a educationally valid test includes evidence collected of this inference's _____________ for a test's purpose.
What is suitability?
A sort of reliability evidence deals with the degree to which different forms of a test yield results that are consistent.
What is alternate-form reliability evidence?
Reliability or Validity?
A bathroom scale that always gives the same reading when you step on it.
What is reliability?
Step 3 to building a educationally valid test includes generation of a reasoned validity ___________ based on Steps 1 and 2.
What is a argument?
To assess how well different items within a test or questionnaire, designed to measure the same construct, correlate with each other, indicating the extent to which they measure the same thing.
Reliability or Validity?
A thermometer that accurately measures your body temperature.
What is validity?
Measurement specialists who can explain the relevant evidence and validation argument for a particular test so that such a __________ ____________ can be understood by the members of any concerned, assessment-knowledgeable constituency.
What is a plain-language explanation?
The use of this "wrinkle" versus reliance on more widely used correlation based reliability coefficients such as a test-retest reliability coefficient.
What is decision-consistency estimates?
Ultimately, the most important concept in all of educational testing is assessment _____________.
What is validity?