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