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Assessments that Illumination Instructional Decisions |
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| Four rules are presented for the development of large-scale tests that can illuminate teachers’ instructional decisions. |
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Conducting Instructional-Sensitivity Reviews of Educational Accountability Tests |
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| This document consists of a set of guidelines for carrying out reviews of the instructional sensitivity of educational tests such as the accountability tests so widely used throughout the world these days. The procedures to be... |
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Educational Mismeasurement:How High-Stakes Testing Can Harm our Children |
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| This presentation to a high-level group of NEA decision-makers describes the shortcomings of today’s high-stakes tests and what actions might be taken to improve our nation’s current mismeasurement of educational quality. |
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High-Stakes Tests:Harmful, Permanent, Fixable |
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| On the assumption that today’s high-stakes accountability tests are not going to disappear in the foreseeable future, and are currently harming children, this analysis suggests how such tests can be improved. |
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How to Nurture the Construction of Instructionally Supportive Tests:An Expert’s Panel’s View |
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| This analysis describes the background and the nine requirements for accountability tests proposed by the Commission on Instructionally Supportive Assessment. |
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Illustrative Language for a State-Level RFP |
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| This illustrative request for proposals (RFP) can be adopted or adapted by state officials who wish to secure the services of an external contractor to prepare instructionally supportive accountability tests (such as those state-level tests needed for NCLB). |
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Instructional Insensitivity of Tests |
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| Today's educational policymakers rely increasingly on the results of large-scale accountability tests to influence their deliberations. The role of accountability tests is currently influencial, however, not only in shaping educational policies, but also in influencing day-by-day classroom... |
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Instructionally Supportive High-Stakes Tests |
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| This unpublished essay, written at the close of 2001 to describe the nine requirements for accountability tests recommended by the Commission on Instructionally Supportive Assessment, identifies the three most important of those requirements, namely, (1) per-standard reporting, (2) assessment of only highest-priority content standards, and (3)... |
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Lessons for Large-Scale Assessors |
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| A general-session presentation at an international conference in the Middle East, this analysis describes a series of lessons learned by large-scale assessors in the United States. |
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Scrutinizing High-Stakes Test Items from an Instructional Perspective |
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| In this report, one state’s attempt to create instructionally sensitive test items is described, that effort being focused on four pivotal item-review evaluative dimensions. |
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Seeking Redemption for our Psychometric Sins |
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| Having chided members of the measurement community for their passivity during an era when educational tests have been harmfully used in our nation’s accountability programs, this analysis proposes eight ways that measurement specialists can pay a suitable “penance” for such sins. |
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Uses and Misuses of Standardized Achievement Tests |
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| After identifying appropriate and inappropriate uses for traditionally constructed standardized achievement tests, this essay argues for the importance of assessment literacy for today’s educators. |
