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Publikováno v:
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice. 29:14-24
Some writers in the measurement literature have been skeptical of the meaningfulness of achievement standards and described the standard-setting process as blatantly arbitrary. We argue that standard setting is more appropriately conceived of as a me
Publikováno v:
Applied Measurement in Education. 17:393-406
Two models are presented in this article for estimating the proportion of students who would pass all of three or more content area tests given that none have actually been tested in more than two of the content areas. The first model allows one to e
Publikováno v:
Applied Measurement in Education. 13:333-342
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) relied heavily on the test development process used for the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) in its defense presented during the GI Forum v. Texas Education Agency (1999) litigation. In this article, we pres
Autor:
Keith L. Cruse, Jon S. Twing
Publikováno v:
Applied Measurement in Education. 13:327-331
The "high-stakes" nature of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) evolved from earlier implementations of assessments explicitly linked to the Texas curriculum. A major focus of the GI Forum v. Texas Education Agency (1999) litigation challe
Publikováno v:
Applied Measurement in Education. 5:111-122
Teachers in three local school districts helped customize two standardized norm-referenced tests (NRTs). The primary purpose of the investigation was to consider the effects of deleting items from the NRTs and of adding locally constructed items to t
Publikováno v:
Applied Measurement in Education. 5:49-62
In the first part of this article, we discuss two criteria that can be used to evaluate the validity of the normative data provided for customized tests. For one of these criteria, previous research has demonstrated quite convincingly that the normat
Autor:
Jon S. Twing, Donald B. Pope-Davis
Publikováno v:
Computers in Human Behavior. 7:333-339
This study investigated the effects of age, gender, and computer experience on four subscales measuring attitudes towards computers. Approximately 207 college students responded to 40 Likert-type statements about computer anxiety, confidence, liking
Publikováno v:
Journal of applied measurement. 5(2)
A number of state assessment programs that employ Rasch-based common item equating procedures estimate the equating constant with only those common items for which the two tests' Rasch item difficulty parameter estimates differ by less than 0.3 logit
Autor:
Walter P. Vispoel, Jon S. Twing
Publikováno v:
Applied Psychological Measurement. 14:108-108