What is a Test?
What is a Test? delves into the design of the tests used for educational accountability.
Summary of this module
Module host--John Tanner
Introducing tests and predictive data sets
Thinking about predictive data sets
Thinking about relative differences
What a predictive data set cannot do
Thinking about predictive data sets from proxies
Limitations in a proxy
The consequences of judging too early
Perfectly imperfect test items
Making teaching and learning inferences
The limitations in our inferences
Using the data
Uses and misuses
Where do I go from here?
Feedback--always optional but always appreciated