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Accuracy vs. Validity, Consistency vs. Reliability, and Fairness vs. Absence of Bias: A Call for Quality 1 Accuracy vs. Validity, Consistency vs. Reliability, and Fairness vs. Absence of Bias: A Call for Quality Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) New Orleans, LA. February 2008 W. Steve Lang, Professor, Educational Measurement and Research University of South Florida St. Petersburg Email: Judy R. Wilkerson, Associate Professor, Research and Assessment Florida Gulf Coast University email: Abstract The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE, 2002) requires teacher education units to develop assessment systems and evaluate both the success of candidates and unit operations. Because of a stated, but misguided, fear of statistics, NCATE fails to use accepted terminology to assure the quality of institutional evaluative decisions with regard to the relevant standard (#2).
NCATE Several documents from the NCATE web site have been reviewed and are used. The main NCATE reference is, of course, the current version of the NCATE Standards, Professional Standards for the Accreditation of Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education. Standard 2, Assessment System and Unit Evaluation, which reads as follows:
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