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ERIC Number: EJ988823
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0731-1745
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Comments on Neil Dorans's NCME Career Award Address: The Contestant Perspective on Taking Tests--Emanations from the Statue within
Pommerich, Mary
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, v31 n4 p40-44 Win 2012
Neil Dorans has made a career of advocating for the examinee. He continues to do so in his NCME career award address, providing a thought-provoking commentary on some current trends in educational measurement that could potentially affect the integrity of test scores. Concerns expressed in the address call attention to a conundrum that faces today's measurement practitioners, namely, that technology-driven assessment, while very appealing, is prone to less controlled conditions of measurement. The commentary given here focuses on the message and implications of Neil Dorans's career award address. It discusses some specific points of note, elaborates on the conundrum, gives a view of the future, and makes a call for a dialogue among test developers and measurement practitioners on how to compensate for the loss in controlled conditions of measurement associated with the use of technology. (Contains 13 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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