Assessment & Learning

1. Content Validity

1.1. Assessment matches objectives

1.1.1. Ensures test questions and what the test should cover correspond.

1.2. Guarantees test is useful

2. Validity

2.1. Criterion-Related Validity

2.1.1. Concurrent Criterion-Related Validity

2.1.1.1. Administering and validating measures simultaneously

2.1.1.1.1. validity coefficient

2.1.2. Predictive Validity

2.1.2.1. Ability to predict an examinees future behavior

2.1.2.1.1. Subjects are tested and later measured against the prediction the test assumed

2.1.2.1.2. Ex: Aptitude tests

2.1.2.1.3. Predictive validity coefficient

2.2. Construct Validity

2.2.1. Test's ability to relate theoretically to other corresponding information

3. Validity & Reliability Mind Map by Michele McIntyre EDU 645: Learning & Assessment for the 21st Century

4. Alternative Form/Equivalence

4.1. Correlation between two sets of scores resulting from two equivalent forms of a test given to subjects is determined

5. Internal Consistency

5.1. Test items correlate with one another

6. Test/Retest Validity

6.1. The correlation between two sets of scores is determined after testing and retesting subjects

7. Reliability