When highly reliable, brief achievement tests are needed in instructional settings, the test developer may consider two prominent methods of constructing criterion-referenced (CR) tests: (1) random ...

You make some good points about the distinction between norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests, but I disagree with your characterization of the latter. The problem with norm-referenced ...

It is a necessary condition that items and tests have variance and discrimination in the range of interest (population of observations) for which they are calibrated and selected. The basis for ...

DES MOINES, Iowa --- Thousands of Iowa students will pick up their No. 2 pencils to fill in tiny circles this month. But this ritual some day may be as foreign to their children as desktop inkwells ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas House committee on public education advanced a plan that would eliminate the state’s current standardized test and replace it with a new type of testing that is designed ...