Measurement Is a Necessary but Not Sufficient Frame for Assessment

Autor/in	Mislevy, Robert J.
Titel	Measurement Is a Necessary but Not Sufficient Frame for Assessment
Quelle	In: Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 11 (2013) 1-2, S.47-49 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1536-6367
DOI	10.1080/15366367.2013.784163
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Educational Assessment; Measurement; Feedback (Response); Evidence; Competition; Test Construction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Messverfahren; Evidenz; Wettkampf; Testaufbau
Abstract	Measurement is a semantic frame, a constellation of relationships and concepts that correspond to recurring patterns in human activity, highlighting typical roles, processes, and viewpoints (e.g., the "commercial event") but not others. One uses semantic frames to reason about unique and complex situations--sometimes intuitively, sometimes deliberately. A professional's measurement frame extends to models and methods for capturing and characterizing information about what people know and can do. Professor Haertel (this issue) considers ways the measurement frame, as useful as it is for some aspects of assessment, does not speak to others. He challenges the tacit assumption that the issues it does deal with are nearly separable from the others. The author agrees. Here are additional frames one needs to understand assessment: (1) Assessment as practice (I); (2) Assessment as practice (II); (3) Feedback loop; (4) Evidentiary argument; (5) Tests as contests; and (6) Design under constraints. Each of these frames helps people organize their thinking about assessment in all its guises. Increased awareness of the key ideas from each and their interconnections, among measurement professionals and others who design and use assessments and assessment systems, would provide common language to address the issues of assessment that involve measurement (and more). (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10