Guidelines for Selecting Appropriate Tests - CEUOneStop

Guidelines for Selecting Appropriate Tests Patricia Jo McDivitt & Donna Gibson In 1990 the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the National Council on measurement in Education (NCME), and the National Education Association (NEA) published Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students. Standard 1 of this document states, Teachers should be skilled in choosing assessment methods Appropriate for instructional decisions. (p. 3) Teachers and all educators involved in the selection and use of Tests follow several Guidelines when seeking to gain this competence. These Guidelines include understanding the purpose of the assessment and determining the quality of the assessment.

Each of these issues will be described in more detail in the remainder of this chapter. The selection of a test should be guided by established criteria for technical quality recommended by measurement professionals, including validity and reliability. Therefore, we begin with a discussion of technical

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