Innovative Validity Approaches for High-Quality Assessments: An Interaction

Session Type: Invited Session

Abstract

The major US educational reform now gaining momentum and a range of attention is the design and implementation of new assessments intended to measure the Common Core State Standards. Many States are involved in two major groups, and others are using their own designs to create assessments. This symposium addresses key validity criteria involving both assessment features and inferences drawn from data, how they support high-quality assessments measuring complex thinking and applicable domain learning. The symposia will include researchers who will describe the criteria and research needed to assure their use, as well as reactions from those in the consortia, commercial testing, and the policy community.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Barbara A. Chow, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Participants

• Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University

• Joan L. Herman, University of California - Los Angeles

• James W. Pellegrino, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Li Cai, University of California - Los Angeles

• Eva L. Baker, University of California - Los Angeles & CRESST

Discussants

• Joseph L. Willhoft, Consultant

• Kent McGuire, Southern Education Foundation, Inc.

• Douglas F. Becker, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Riverside

• Jeffrey Nellhaus, Achieve, Inc.

• Jack Buckley, College Board