Sentences with phrase «good educational measurement»

Don — The 12 - week window for CAASPP test administration for grades 3 - 8 is not good educational measurement policy.

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It's good to see this knowledge becoming more available to replace the misconceptions of educational measurement.
Two seminal educational measurement textbooks — Best Test Design and Rating Scale Analysis — from the University of Chicago's MESA Laboratory are now available for free download.
Both quotes are strong statements in support of good K - 12 large scale testing practices required by educational measurement standards (i.e., validity, reliability, comparability, fairness) that are also included in CA's statewide assessment authorizing statutory language.
As Harvard professor Dan Koretz, who studies educational measurement, points out, «Even a very good test measures only a modest proportion of what we value.»
A good course on educational measurement and / or psychometrics would discuss this.
Accurate measurement and evaluation of continuing (as well as initial) competence and knowledge is another important dimension of educational, credentialing, and recredentialing programs.
Researchers in university departments of psychology and educational assessment, as well as scientists at various measurement companies, have been industriously innovating, developing evidence - based systems by which we can effectively student character strengths and noncognitive skills.
Work in all three of these domains demands better measurement methods to support educational initiatives designed to better prepare and support our youth and their healthy development.
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