... Authors 2014 Formative assessment Classroom assessment Diagnostic assessment Educational accountability Student testing Madhabi Chatterji, Guest-Editor, Teachers College, Columbia University[ 2 ] Gordon describes the “liberal” and “conservative” forces that have shaped...

... addressed a range of such validity concerns. © Authors 2014 Assessment for instruction Norm-referenced testing Criterion-referenced testing Standardized tests Teacher evaluation School evaluation Educational accountability Madhabi Chatterji, Guest Editor, Teachers College...

... surrounding the validity of test-based actions in educational accountability and school improvement contexts. The specific discussions here focus testing issues in the US. However, the general principles underlying appropriate and inappropriate test use in accountability and school improvement settings...

... and evaluation specialists as well as for educators, policy makers, and public users of data. Standardized test use in formative and more “high stakes” educational accountability contexts is rapidly spreading to various regions of the world. This eBrief shows that understandings of validity are still uneven...