Since test items are the building blocks of any test, learning how to develop and validate test
items has always been critical to the teaching-learning process. As they grow in importance …

Evidence‐centered assessment design (ECD) provides language, concepts, and knowledge
representations for designing and delivering educational assessments, all organized around …

In our opinion, the Handbook achieved that purpose and then some. You cannot walk
through a social science library, visit a colleague's office or tour the hallways of a testing …

Recent decades have witnessed advances in the cognitive, psychometric, and technological
tools, concepts, and theories germane to educational assessment. The challenge is to bring …

A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step
guidance for develo**, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance …

Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for
accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher …

In this chapter we describe the principles and processes of evidence-centered design
(ECD), a comprehensive assessment design framework introduced by Mislevy, Steinberg …

Validity is the sine qua non of all assessment data, without which assessment data has little
or no meaning. All assessments require validity evidence and nearly all topics in …

From early answer sheets filled in with number 2 pencils, to tests administered by mainframe
computers, to assessments wholly constructed by computers, it is clear that technology is …

Job analysis is the process of discovering the nature of a job. It typically results in an
understanding of the work content, such as tasks and duties, understanding what people …