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Up Against the Wall: Psychometrics Meets Praxis
Author(s) -
LeMahieu Paul G.,
Wallace Richard C.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
educational measurement: issues and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1745-3992
pISSN - 0731-1745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3992.1986.tb00464.x
Subject(s) - praxis , psychometrics , psychology , computer science , management science , applied psychology , medical education , data science , medicine , epistemology , clinical psychology , engineering , philosophy
In this article, two school administrators argue that care must be taken to fit the specifics of a testing program to Its intended purpose. Specifically, they argue that the purposes of testing for diagnosing individual student teaming and for school evaluation should not be confused. They suggest that while typical systemwide testing programs may provide useful evaluative information, they suffer from several characteristics that make them hardly useful as sources of diagnostic information for guiding instruction in individual teachers' classes.