A Practical and Prescriptive Approach to Validity--Commentary

Autor/inn/en	DiBello, Lou; Stout, William
Titel	A Practical and Prescriptive Approach to Validity--Commentary
Quelle	In: Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 5 (2007) 2-3, S.138-141 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1536-6367
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Test Validity; Psychometrics; Test Construction; Evaluation Research; Mathematics Education; Mathematics Instruction; Knowledge Base for Teaching; Evaluation Methods; Measurement Techniques; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Educational Assessment; Teacher Evaluation; Evaluation Problems; Testing Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Testvalidität; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Testaufbau; Evaluationsforschung; Mathematische Bildung; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Teaching theory; Theory of teaching; Unterrichtstheorie; Messtechnik; Pädagogische Kompetenz; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung
Abstract	In this article, the authors provide their critique on a set of papers that investigated Mathematics Knowledge for Teachers (MKT) assessment and the underlying theory and characteristics of the validity enterprise. Three types of assumptions and inferences--elemental, structural, and ecological--are discussed in these papers. These assumptions provide a general and prescriptive validity framework that will enable assessment developers to plan comprehensive validity investigations that incorporate appropriate types of evidence gathering: psychometric and statistical, qualitative, and experimental. Here, the authors opine that the prescriptive three-facet approach mapped out in the papers that incorporates sophisticated psychometric methods and is strongly interdisciplinary, adds significantly to this work by offering a solid and practical contribution to the theory and methods of assessment validity, and by providing an important concrete case example. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10