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It's time to curtail the inappropriate uses of tests, but let's use tests appropriately when they can help us help kids.
We administered approximately 50 million high-stakes tests last year in the U.S. Assessment remains an important tool to promote equity in education and measure student progress, but the types, frequency, and uses of tests are changing.
Test validity is 'the degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretations of test scores for proposed uses of tests' (AERA et al. 2014, 11).
According to the Standards (AERA/APA/NCME 1999), validity refers to "the degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretations of the scores entailed by proposed uses of tests" (p. 9).
The possibility that inappropriate score-based interpretations and uses of tests may introduce unfair consequences to different groups of test takers is a great problem for language teachers and researchers.
According to the latest (1999) Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, validity refers to the degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretations of test scores entailed by the proposed uses of tests.
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And yet, the use of tests proliferates on national, state and local levels.
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