Sentences with phrase «many psychometricians»

Psychometricians have devised tests which are empirically based on proven theoretical foundations.

«Harvard psychometrician and NAGB member Andrew Ho expressed concern that «unrealistically high short - term goals are a risk» that creates the incentive to focus on the «bubble kids» in a bid to meet those goals.»

Psychometricians deal a lot in unintended consequences and hidden dependencies.

Ho was the lead psychometrician on the report.

Still, it will be easier than in the past for psychometricians to compare schools across state lines, since cut scores are much closer to one another (and to NAEP) now.

In practice, psychometricians usually act as if ability scores are on an equal - unit scale (or, in technical terms, an «interval» scale).

Scores from these digitally based assessments were then calibrated, through careful research, to ensure a fair and consistent measure of educational progress, according to Andrew Ho, a psychometrician and member of the National Assessment Governing Board.

Finally, we must put aside the quibbling over how to evaluate teachers, or at least leave it to the psychometricians.

Mathematicians who specialize in measurement in the social sciences, together with experts in the construction and interpretation of tests — psychometricians — have devoted considerable attention to this matter.

In the 1950s, psychometricians began to deal with this issue in a systematic way.

Why did one of the psychometricians, Stephen Sireci of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, vote to end flagging even though he was «not sure» that scores from tests taken with and without accommodations are comparable?

The ultimate 4 - 2 vote in favor of ending flagging revealed the importance of its composition, as the two «nay» votes were from the admissions officer and one of the psychometricians.

Besides the chairperson, who was not expected to vote except to break a tie, the panel included two testing experts (psychometricians), one college admissions officer, and three persons with experience and training in the special - education and learning - disabilities arena.

Indeed, Robert Brennan of the University of Iowa (who directs the Iowa testing programs), the psychometrician who said «no» and voted with the minority, wrote, «Crucial evidence from prediction studies does not support a conclusion that scores on College Board standardized tests administered with extended time to disabled students are comparable to scores on the same tests administered to nondisabled students without extended time.»

Ho is a psychometrician interested in educational accountability metrics, particularly the intersection between educational statistics and educational policies.

Ho is a psychometrician interested in educational accountability metrics — an intersection between educational statistics and educational policies.

That way, our clients can provide their funders and accreditors with the statistics they need to demonstrate the efficacy of their courses without having to hire a psychometrician to analyze the data for them.

The risk here is aggravated by the fact that the Common Core effort has now largely been handed off to state assessment directors, test developers, psychometricians, and overworked staff at a few national organizations — and these well - meaning people aren't necessarily interested in or sensitive to the broader impact of their handiwork.

A modest outlay, in the range of $ 10 to $ 20 million, could have dramatic potential if expended on convening the nation's top - flight statisticians, economists, and psychometricians to construct a research and methodological task force to buttress cost modeling strategies.

The air was rife with technical acumen, shared by smart test developers and psychometricians.

I was one of the two psychometricians on the panel that advised the College Board on the issue of whether the SAT scores of disabled students who take the test with accommodations should be «flagged» (see Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, «Disabling the SAT,» Feature, Fall 2003).

So let the psychometricians continue to improve techniques for value - added assessment.

• Gardner says that most psychometricians, those who devise and interpret tests as a way of probing the nature of intelligence, conceive of intelligence as unitary.

This is not an accurate characterization of the position taken by most psychometricians.

From the 1950s on, many psychometricians proposed hierarchical models, which may be thought of as a mixture of the single - factor and multiple - factor models.

Thus Gardner's first claim — that most psychometricians believe that intelligence is unitary — is inaccurate.

These companies hire testing experts, called psychometricians, to do extensive research and piloting to develop questions to include on tests.

Like the makers of hot dogs, psychometricians, economists, and other testing experts know too well what goes into the creation of achievement tests.

William Sanders (see above) writes that psychometricians are not all of the view that achievement scales lack an equal - interval property.

My colleague Dr. Jeff McLeod, Edmentum's chief psychometrician, recently released a white paper on the Research Base and Instructional Design of Edmentum Digital Curriculum.

I am not a psychometrician, I am a mere lawyer who has been involved in policy.

Dr. Joseph Martineau has served Michigan students and educators as Deputy Superintendent of Accountability Services, Executive Director of the Bureau of Assessment and Accountability, Director of the Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability, Manager of General Populations Assessment, and a Psychometrician of the Michigan Department of Education since 2004.

Erika previously served as a Senior Research Scientist at Pearson, where she was lead psychometrician for a variety of state and national assessment programs.

A psychometrician may well find a local assessment system not up to a rigid technical standard; but such a system can still be credible and effective within the real — world constraints of school time, talent, and budgets.

A psychometrician by formal training, Dr. Solano - Flores» work focuses on the development of alternative, multidisciplinary approaches that address linguistic and cultural diversity in testing.

(Short aside: This is a great reference book for both psychometricians and teachers to have on their bookshelves.

State officials, psychometricians, and assessment developers shared their experiences around creating and implementing their own innovative assessment tools, all of which aim to move students away from traditional pencil - and - paper multiple - choice formats to assessments that meet one or more of the following criteria: 2

The scores for fourth - graders and eighth - graders were higher than in previous years, but psychometricians have yet to untangle the degree of improvement attributable to No Child Left Behind (no NAEP math test was given in 2002, when No Child Left Behind began).

Dr. Nhouyvanisvong is an educator and psychometrician who has taught courses in assessment theory and best practices.

His experience includes leading teams of researchers, psychometricians, and data analysts, as well as overseeing the development of products and solutions for national, state, and district assessment programs.

Gary: with all due respect for those who post here, thank you for your patience with nit - picking, e.g., we could argue interminably over the use of the terms «validity» and «reliability» and «bias» as they are used generally and as they are used in very specific ways by psychometricians when talking about the construction and administration of standardized tests and the inferences that could be drawn about test scores.

If NAEP is hallowed by educators and psychometricians, then how can wecriticize PARCC as «extraordinarily hard?»

When I worked as a psychometrician for large testing companies, I would always conduct an item analysis on the test questions to ensure that they were good and reliable.

Our methodological contributions are routinely featured in leading journals and used by statisticians and psychometricians around the world.

Joseph spent ten years with the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) as a Psychometrician, Manager of Large - scale Assessment Programs, Director of Assessment & Accountability, and Deputy Superintendent responsible for assessment, accountability, educator preparation and certification, and communication and governmental affairs.

As for the reaction of my colleagues in psychology, I'd say that the reaction ranged from mild enthusiasm (mostly from developmental and educational psychologists) to ignoring (by mainstream psychologists) to condemnation (by psychometricians — the technicians who make the tests and who feel that they «own» intelligence).

Despite the best efforts of psychometricians and validation processes, CEA's Waxenberg said he believes there will always be elements of subjectivity in the evaluation process.

And I was hired to fill the slot recently vacated by the world's leading psychometrician at the University of Illinois.

Valencia and Wixson have gathered scholarship from three disparate sources to produce the first integrated review of policy - related research on literacy education: (a) policy analyses that examine policies about literacy in the framework of systemic reform; (b) measurement and evaluation studies, conducted by psychometricians, that examine the assessments mandated by policies; and (c) studies by literacy researchers that attend to policies and literacy - specific content.

TRUTH: Leading psychometricians have argued in sworn affidavits that the Regents exams violate the standards and practices of the testing industry.