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ERIC Number: EJ1025485
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0731-1745
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The Multiple-Use of Accountability Assessments: Implications for the Process of Validation
Koch, Martha J.
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, v32 n4 p2-15 Win 2014
Implications of the multiple-use of accountability assessments for the process of validation are examined. Multiple-use refers to the simultaneous use of results from a single administration of an assessment for its intended use and for one or more additional uses. A theoretical discussion of the issues for validation which emerge from multiple-use is provided focusing on the increased stakes that result from multiple-use and the need to consider the interactions that may take place between multiple-uses. To further explore this practice, an empirical study of the multiple-use of the Education Quality and Accountability Office Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics, a mandatory assessment administered in Ontario, Canada, is presented. Drawing on data gathered in an in-depth case study, practices associated with two of the multiple-uses of this assessment are considered and evidence of ways these two uses interact is presented. Given these interactions, the limitations of an argument-based approach to validation for this instance of multiple-use are demonstrated. Some ways that the process of validation might better address the practice of multiple-use are suggested and areas for further investigation of this frequently occurring practice are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 9; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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