Uncommon Measures: Equivalence and Linkage Among Educational Tests

by Committee on Equivalency and Linkage of, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Testing and Assessment, et al.

The issues surrounding the comparability of various tests used to assess performance in schools received broad public attention during congressional debate over the Voluntary National Tests proposed by President Clinton in his 1997 State of the Union Address. Proponents of Voluntary National Tests argue that there is no widely understood, challenging benchmark of individual student performance in 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics, thus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309062799
• ISBN13: 9780309062794
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"