Criterion-Referenced Testing 30 Years Later: Promise Broken, Promise Kept.

Millman, Jason

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Publication Date: 1994

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Criterion-Referenced Testing 30 Years Later: Promise Broken, Promise Kept.

Millman, Jason

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, v13 n4 p19-20,39 Win 1994

The unfulfilled promise of criterion-referenced measurement is that it would permit valid inferences about what a student could and could not do. To come closest to achieving all that criterion-referenced testing originally promised, tests of higher item density, with more items per amount of domain, are required. (SLD)

Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational History, Inferences, Norm Referenced Tests, Student Evaluation, Test Interpretation, Test Items, Test Use

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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Assessment of Educational Progress

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