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Berliner, David – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
The inevitable responses to high stakes testing, wherein students' test scores are highly consequential for teachers and administrators, include cheating, excessive test preparation, changes in test scoring and other forms of gaming to ensure that test scores appear high. Over the last decade this has been demonstrated convincingly in the USA, but…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, School Restructuring, Testing, Construct Validity
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Yang, Weiwei; Lance, Charles E.; Hui, Harry C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
In this study, we (a) examined the measurement equivalence/invariance (ME/I) of the Chinese Self-Directed Search (SDS; 1994 edition) across gender and geographic regions (Mainland China vs. Hong Kong); (b) assessed the construct validity of the Chinese SDS using Widaman's (1985, 1992) MTMM framework; and (c) determined whether vocational interests…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Construct Validity