Tag: valid and reliable

No Validity or Reliability = No Assessment!

Filed in Uncategorized by on April 17, 2015 1 Comment
No Validity or Reliability = No Assessment!

Parents across the state are being told that they have no ability to refuse the SBAC (ISAT 2.0) assessment for their child.  School districts and the State Dept. of Education persistently point out that, as a state, we are required to test 95% of the student population per No Child Left Behind and our No […]

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Validity and Reliability Correction

Filed in Uncategorized by on April 9, 2015 5 Comments
Validity and Reliability Correction

I was wrong! I don’t know if even this bold confession will please some people, but I made a mistake and I need to correct it. From IDAPA page 24: Any assessment used for federal reporting shall be independently reviewed for reliability, validity, and alignment with the Idaho Content Standards. In February, I wrote a […]

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