Open AccessToward educational testing reform: Inside reading achievement tests
Author(s) -
Dick Schutz
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
education policy analysis archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1068-2341
DOI - 10.14507/epaa.v21n90.2013
Subject(s) - standardized test , reading (process) , mathematics education , achievement test , educational assessment , test (biology) , academic achievement , psychology , student achievement , educational testing , pedagogy , political science , paleontology , law , biology
The commentary (1) uses the U. S. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as a prototype for examining standardized reading achievement tests at the item level, and (2) sketches an alternative based on an initiative underway in the United Kingdom.