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Meeting the NRC Panel's Recommendations: Commentary on the Papers by Mislevy and Haertel, Gorin, and Abedi and Gándara
Author(s) -
Lohman David F.,
Nichols Paul
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.1745-3992.2006.00079.x
Subject(s) - scale (ratio) , engineering ethics , work (physics) , psychology , cognition , engineering , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , physics
In this commentary, we summarize some of the main themes of the NRC report and note ways in which the papers by Mislevy and Haertel, Gorin, and Abedi and Gándara address the Panel's recommendations. We then briefly review and offer reflections on each paper. We see much to applaud here and also in the broader effort to build bridges between the cognitive and measurement sciences. However, much work remains, not only in building bridges, be also in educating the next generation of psychometricians about cognition and the next generation of teachers about psychometrics. Until that day, even the best work here will have little impact on the business of large‐scale assessment.