Measuring Up¶
Koretz, D. (2008). Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us. Harvard University Press.
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Primes¶
- Construct Validity
- In education, the question is whether an examination measures understanding or the ability to perform a specific task format, and teaching-to-the-test is a construct-validity collapse in which the proxy becomes the goal and the construct no longer travels.
This sourceDocuments score inflation and teaching-to-the-test as construct-validity collapse where the proxy detaches from the target construct.
- In education, the question is whether an examination measures understanding or the ability to perform a specific task format, and teaching-to-the-test is a construct-validity collapse in which the proxy becomes the goal and the construct no longer travels.
- Goodhart's Law
- In education, standardized test scores proxy for learning; once they drive funding, pay, and promotion, the easiest path becomes test-prep, narrowed curriculum, and exclusion of weak students from testing pools, and the score-construct correlation collapses while scores climb.
This sourceDocuments how high-stakes testing induces score inflation, teaching to the test, and curriculum narrowing, so test-score gains far exceed true learning gains and the score–learning correlation collapses — an education-policy instance of Goodhart/Campbell's law.
- In education, standardized test scores proxy for learning; once they drive funding, pay, and promotion, the easiest path becomes test-prep, narrowed curriculum, and exclusion of weak students from testing pools, and the score-construct correlation collapses while scores climb.
- Summative Assessment
- High-school exit examinations in many states and high-stakes international secondary examinations (Gaokao in China, Suneung in Korea, Bagrut in Israel, A-levels in the UK, Abitur in Germany, the International Baccalaureate) are high-consequence summative gates, the breadth of which Koretz (2008) surveys in his treatment of what educational testing actually tells us.
This sourceComprehensive treatment of the scope, limits, and consequences of standardized educational testing; surveys the breadth of summative-assessment regimes from K-12 accountability through international assessments and licensure.
- High-school exit examinations in many states and high-stakes international secondary examinations (Gaokao in China, Suneung in Korea, Bagrut in Israel, A-levels in the UK, Abitur in Germany, the International Baccalaureate) are high-consequence summative gates, the breadth of which Koretz (2008) surveys in his treatment of what educational testing actually tells us.
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