The modern educator’s life often feels as if it is driven by test results. Test scores are now used to compare students, to compare and give grades to schools, and even to compensate teachers. But ...

Two methods of constructing equal-interval scales for educational achievement are discussed: Thurstone's absolute scaling method and Item Response Theory (IRT). Alternative criteria for choosing a ...

All educational fixes face the same problem—how do you measure success? The simplest method is to attempt to measure the quantity of learning, saying that students achieve more learning or less ...

Today, Smarter Balanced announced a new initiative to develop measurement-focused principles and guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in educational assessments. With experience ...

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The Rasch measurement model has emerged as a pivotal tool in educational assessment by transforming ordinal performance data into interval-level measures. This probabilistic model facilitates the ...

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A measure on the November ballot on out-of-school educational opportunities has generated considerable attention and conversation statewide. While there is plenty of opposition to Proposition 119 — ...

A second-order factor analysis of responses to Kerlinger's "ES-VII" and Oliver and Butcher's "Survey of Opinions about Education" was performed. Both scales were designed to measure "Attitudes toward ...