The concept of validity : revisions, new directions, and applications

Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning of validity almost from the introduction of the term as applied to testing about 100 years ago. Over the years, the best and brightest people in asses...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Lissitz, Robert W. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2009]
Subjects
Examinations > Validity.
Education > Testing & Measurement.
Education: examinations and assessment.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806618057
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-269-0
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 263 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Packing and unpacking sources of validity evidence: history repeats itself again / Stephen G. Sireci
  • Validating the interpretations and uses of test scores / Michael Kane
  • Validity as contextualized and pragmatic explanation, and its implications for validation practice / Bruno D. Zumbo
  • Validity from the perspective of model-based reasoning / Robert J. Mislevy
  • Invalidity in validity / Joel Michell
  • The end of construct validity / Denny Borsboom .. [et al.]
  • Validity in action: state assessment validity evidence for compliance with NCLB / William D. Schafer, Joyce Wang, and Vivian Wang
  • The concept of validity in the context of NCLB / Robert L. Linn
  • Validity is in the eye of the beholder: conveying SAT research findings to the general public / Krista Mattern ... [et al.]
  • Content validity considerations in language testing contexts / Micheline Chalhoub-Deville.

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