American Psychological Association, and National Council on Measurement in Education, Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing¶
American Educational Research Association. (2014). American Psychological Association, and National Council on Measurement in Education, Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.
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11 citations across 11 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Holdout Set
- This is why exam boards retire used items and reserve fresh ones: each public exposure erodes an item's evaluative force.
This sourceEstablishes test security, item retirement, and reservation of items from instruction so that scores measure learning rather than rehearsal — the holdout principle in assessment.
- This is why exam boards retire used items and reserve fresh ones: each public exposure erodes an item's evaluative force.
- Summative Assessment
- As codified in the AERA, APA, and NCME (2014) Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing,
This sourceAERA. Authoritative codification of professional standards for test development, validity, reliability, fairness, and appropriate use governing summative assessment in educational and psychological measurement.
- As codified in the AERA, APA, and NCME (2014) Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing,
Domain-specific¶
- Educational Assessment
- It begins by stating what knowledge, skill, attitude, aptitude, belief, or program result is at issue; selects tasks or observations capable of revealing it; applies scoring and interpretation rules; compares the result with criteria, norms, expectations, or prior states; and uses the finding for feedback or decision.
This sourceSets validity, reliability, fairness, documentation, and use standards for tests and assessments.
- It begins by stating what knowledge, skill, attitude, aptitude, belief, or program result is at issue; selects tasks or observations capable of revealing it; applies scoring and interpretation rules; compares the result with criteria, norms, expectations, or prior states; and uses the finding for feedback or decision.
- Educational Measurement
- The joint AERA–APA–NCME Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing supplies professional obligations for test development, evaluation, administration, interpretation, and use, with validity, reliability/precision, and fairness as foundational concerns.
This sourceJoint professional standards for test development, evaluation, administration, interpretation, fairness, and use.
- The joint AERA–APA–NCME Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing supplies professional obligations for test development, evaluation, administration, interpretation, and use, with validity, reliability/precision, and fairness as foundational concerns.
- Employment testing
- Receptive–Expressive Language Profile
- Pointing, motor planning, working memory, hearing, literacy, and cultural familiarity can depress a score without being the target language capacity
This sourceDefines construct-irrelevant variance — score variance produced by processes extraneous to the test's intended purpose — and the fairness requirement built on it, without enumerating the particular contaminants this sentence lists.
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- Pointing, motor planning, working memory, hearing, literacy, and cultural familiarity can depress a score without being the target language capacity
Mechanisms¶
- Construct-to-Proxy Traceability Table
- Its strength is that it surfaces the archetype's two structural threats — construct underrepresentation (missing rows) and construct-irrelevant variance (overloaded proxies) — cheaply and legibly, before a single statistic is run.
This sourceIdentifies construct underrepresentation and construct-irrelevant variance as structural threats to the validity of test-score interpretations.
- Its strength is that it surfaces the archetype's two structural threats — construct underrepresentation (missing rows) and construct-irrelevant variance (overloaded proxies) — cheaply and legibly, before a single statistic is run.
- Known-Groups or Contrast-Case Test
- The discipline is to match confounds, prefer graded over extreme contrasts, and always include the boundary case that could expose a surrogate.
This sourceRequires validity analysis to address construct-irrelevant influences and plausible confounds in group comparisons.
- The discipline is to match confounds, prefer graded over extreme contrasts, and always include the boundary case that could expose a surrogate.
- Proxy–Target Correlation Refresh
- That single re-estimated coefficient reframes how much weight the test deserves in the next hiring cycle — a question of predictive validity, checked with fresh paired data.
This sourceTreats prediction of an external criterion and validation with relevant empirical data as evidence of predictive validity.
- That single re-estimated coefficient reframes how much weight the test deserves in the next hiring cycle — a question of predictive validity, checked with fresh paired data.
- Simulation Checkout
- Done well, it is a validated proxy — its worth rests on predictive validity, the degree to which the sim score forecasts real-world performance
This sourceDefines predictive evidence by how accurately test scores forecast later criterion performance.
- Done well, it is a validated proxy — its worth rests on predictive validity, the degree to which the sim score forecasts real-world performance
- Validity Limitation Memo
- It also makes the interpretation legible to the non-specialists who use the score
This sourceRequires score reports and interpretations to be presented in language and formats understandable to their intended users.
- It also makes the interpretation legible to the non-specialists who use the score
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