How is Educational Measurement Supposed to Deal With Test Use?

摘要

At the outset of his thoughtful and thought-provoking article, Haertel (this issue) clearly identifies the issue with which he will be dealing: The disjunct, or gap, in current approaches to evaluating the merits of a given test, between the intended uses of that test and the validity of its score-based interpretations. In my view, Haertel has identified precisely the most critical issue in current thinking on validation in measurement. In the rest of the article he"offers another way of framing these concerns," using several different test purposes as examples to illustrate this.