
Validity
Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments
Equinox Publishing Ltd
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-78179-990-1 (ISBN)
Description
Validity: Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments provides a historical overview of validity, targeting developments in both the UK and the US. It explores theoretical notions of validity as well as pragmatic validation practices and expands the arguments that need to be attended to document quality. The authors examine the need to consider, in addition to the psychometric evidence, which has continued to prevail especially in the US, other critical sources of quality evidence. They call attention to principled design and the evidence accumulated from various departments/groups involved in test design and development. They also promote the concept of impact by design, which places consequences at the top of the evidence chain to guide all testing efforts and quality documentation. They envision validity scholarship to attend to consequences at the individual, aggregate/group, and larger educational/organisational/societal levels. Concomitant with this attention to consequences are considerations of stakeholders and the tailoring of communication to engage intended groups. Such an approach yields a more convincing validity argument. The monograph ends by calling on professionals in the field to publish case studies which showcase localised validity arguments in practice. Local case studies represent critical endeavours to illustrate how evidence and arguments are pulled together to support the quality of a testing programme and all that it entails.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
12 figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
3216 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78179-990-1 (9781781799901)
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Persons
Micheline Chalhoub-Deville is Professor of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Barry O'Sullivan is Head of Assessment Research and Development, the British Council, London, Visiting Professor of Language Assessment at the University of Reading, and Advisory Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Content
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF VALIDITY CHAPTER 3 PRINCIPLED DESIGN, TEST DEVELOPMENT, AND VALIDATION CHAPTER 4 VALIDITY AND CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER 5 INTRODUCING AN INTEGRATED ARGUMENT-BASED APPROACH TO VALIDATION CHAPTER 6 CONCULSION: VALIDATION, LOCALISATION, AND CASE STUDIES