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Consequences of Test Score Use as Validity Evidence: Roles and Responsibilities
Author(s) -
Nichols Paul D.,
Williams Natasha
Publication year - 2009
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.1745-3992.2009.01132.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , psychology , test score , external validity , test validity , predictive validity , social psychology , applied psychology , psychometrics , standardized test , developmental psychology , mathematics education , biology , paleontology
This article has three goals. The first goal is to clarify the role that the consequences of test score use play in validity judgments by reviewing the role that modern writers on validity have ascribed for consequences in supporting validity judgments. The second goal is to summarize current views on who is responsible for collecting evidence of test score use consequences by attempting to separate the responsibilities of the test developer and the test user. The last goal is to offer a framework that attempts to prescribe the conditions under which the responsibility for collecting evidence of consequences falls to the test developer or to the test user .