Validity
This term refers to the degree to wgich evidence and theory support the interpretations of test scores for proposed uses of tests.
What is validity?
There are this many steps in the building of an ecucational test's validity argument?
What is 3?
If you enlist the consultative services of a measurement specialist whose validity explanations are enshrouded by jargon-laden opacity, then you need to do what?
What is find a different measurement specialist?
This refers to the consistency with which we measure whatever we are measuring.
What is assessment reliability?
This focuses on the consistency of the decision that's based on a student's score.
What is decision-consistency estimates?
This is considered most fundamental consideration in developing tests and evaluating tests.
What is validation?
Which step of the process involves collecting the evidence regarding the degree to which a test-taker's score appropriately contributes to accomplishing the test's primary purpose?
What is 2?
This type of individiual can be hired by any group of interested individuals, such as members of a school board, a school's PTA, or a state teachers/administrator's association.
What is a reasonable-fee assessment expert?
This is the number of types of reliability evidence.
What is 3?
This is an indicator of consistency that can be used when focusing on the consistency of an individual student's performance.
What is standard error of measurement?
Validity hinges on whether a score-based assessment is both _____ and ____________.
What is "accurate" and "contributes to the accomplishment of a particular test's purpose"?
This step of the validation process involves identifying and assembling evidence bearing on the accuracy of a test-taker's inferred status regarding what's being measured.
What is 1?
This person's job is to provide plain-language explanations of any existing evidence-based validity argument in support to a particular test's use.
What is a measurement specialist?
Test-retest reliability coefficients represents the _____ with which a test is measuring what it is measuring.
This would want to be seen if the purpose of an educational test is to evaluate instructional quality.
What is instructional sensitivity?
The application of what is happening throughout the entire collection and presentation of validity evidence.
What is human judgement?
This sort of reliability evidence deals with the degree to which different forms of a test wield results that are consistent.
What is alternate-form reliability evidence?
The sequence of "inference-accuracy evidence" - "fitness-to-purpose evidence" - "validity argument" is known as what?
The validation process.
This conception of consistency focuses on the consistency among the test's items in what they were measuring.
What is internal consistency reliability evidence?