Disengaged test taking in international assessment programs threatens the validity of inferences about a country's educational attainment¶
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q2 i? Concern is growing that disengaged test taking in international assessment programs undermines the validity of inferences made about a country's level of educational attainment. → Steven Wise 2021
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Steven Wise 2021¶
Steven Wise. (2021). Six insights regarding test-taking disengagement. Educational Research and Evaluation, 26(5-6), 328-338. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/six-insights-regarding-test-taking-disengagement/
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The author's statement of the problem motivating the review. The article reports "increasing concern about the presence of disengaged test taking in international assessment programs" and its implications for validity of country-level attainment inferences; no empirical estimate is attached here.
"There has been increasing concern about the presence of disengaged test taking in international assessment programs and its implications for the validity of inferences made regarding a country’s level of educational attainment."
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Related Claims¶
- Twenty years of research on disengaged test taking in international assessment programs yields six insights with implications for assessment programs — a broader claim this one bears on
- Disengaged test taking materially impacts individual state summative test scores but may have relatively minor impact on score aggregations — related
- Student test-taking disengagement on remotely administered adaptive interim assessments differs from disengagement on the same assessment administered in school — related
- Test-taking engagement plays an essential role in the pursuit of valid scores — a broader claim this one bears on
- Test disengagement could undermine inferences drawn from observed achievement scores — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Previous research found a meaningful correlation between countries' mean engagement and mean performance on large-scale international assessments, motivating validity questions about aggregated scores — related
- Interpreting differences in school-aggregate test scores as real differences in school performance raises accuracy concerns even under routine schooling conditions, which the pandemic may exacerbate — related
- Content alignment between a test and its content domain represents key evidence for validating test score inferences — related
- Rapid-guessing behavior on computer-based tests signals disengaged test taking that threatens score validity — related
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Disengaged test taking in international assessment programs threatens the validity of inferences about a country's educational attainment |
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Disengaged test taking in international assessment programs threatens the validity of inferences about a country's educational attainment |
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