A Quantum Measurement Paradigm for Educational Predicates: Implications for validity in educational measurement

Some Implications of Current Policy for Educational Measurement

Measurement in Educational Research

Without measurement, forward progress would not be possible in educational or other research contexts. Measurement, the process by which a variable is operationalized for the purpose of describing that variable in a quantitative manner (Hills, 1981; Kane, 2001), serves as the link between questions and answers. While the process of measurement bridges the gap between research objectives/questio...

Applications of operations research in educational measurement

Special Volume of the Annals of Operations Research The educational testing industry has grown significantly over the past few decades. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 has required states to assess the educational quality at all public schools. Also, most higher education institutions consider scores on standardized tests for admission, and assess general academic achievement with addition...

Statistical Analysis of Text in Educational Measurement

This paper describes tools developed at Educational Testing Service which use statistical modeling of textual corpora to provide automated assessments of student responses. Details are given for three of these systems: Critique Writing Analysis Tools for providing feedback to students, e-rater for assigning a holistic score to student essays, and c-rater, which scores responses to content-based...

Unfair items detection in educational measurement

Measurement professionals cannot come to an agreement on the definition of the term „item fairness‟. In this paper a continuous measure of item unfairness is proposed. The more the unfairness measure deviates from zero, the less fair the item is. If the measure exceeds the cutoff value, the item is identified as definitely unfair. The new approach can identify unfair items that would not be ide...