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The Challenges of Meeting the Standards : A Perspective from the Test Publishing Community
Author(s) -
Harris William G.
Publication year - 2006
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.1745-3992.2006.00067.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , publishing , perspective (graphical) , quality (philosophy) , face (sociological concept) , engineering management , political science , engineering ethics , computer science , medical education , engineering , sociology , medicine , social science , law , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , biology
Some of the challenges that test publishers face in constructing educational assessments that meet high technical quality as prescribed in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing ( AERA, APA, NCME, 1999 ) are examined. Federal educational initiatives are used to illustrate demands on technical quality that challenge the efforts of test publishers to adhere to the Standards. Possible pitfalls to avoid when updating the Standards are also discussed.