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Validity of Educational Assessments: Capturing (Instructional Effects on) Students' Learning Growth

Tue, April 17, 12:25 to 1:55pm, New York Marriott Marquis, Floor: Fourth Floor, Ziegfeld

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium is concerned with validity issues of assessments in educational contexts. To date, researchers and policy-makers heavily rely on educational assessments to draw inferences on students or teaching. Yet, valid inferences require empirical evidence supporting test use and interpretation.

The presentations address two interrelated challenges central to the development and the interpretation of educational assessments: (a) when drawing inferences on teaching, how can we ensure that instruments are capable of capturing effects of instruction? (b) when drawing inferences on students, how can we ensure that test results can be attributed to learning growth? All presentations demonstrate how to obtain empirical evidence for test use and interpretation, fostering the development of assessments to register educational effects at different levels.

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