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Moss, Pamela A. – Educational Researcher, 1994
The assumption that reliability is a necessary but insufficient condition for validity in assessment is challenged by exploring a dialectic between psychometric and hermeneutic approaches to drawing and warranting interpretations of human products of performance. Hermeneutic alternatives for epistemological and ethical purposes expand the range of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Epistemology, Ethics

Clark, Caroline T.; Moss, Pamela A. – Teachers College Record, 1996
Reports on a study of a collaborative relationship between faculty at the University of Michigan and teachers and students at a comprehensive urban high school. The ethical and epistemological (validity) considerations have to do with using high school students as paid coresearchers. The study is illustrated with excerpts from student meetings and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Epistemology, Ethics