Up Against the Wall: Psychometrics Meets Praxis |
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| Authors: | Paul G. LeMahieu Richard C. Wallace Jr. |
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| Affiliation: | Director, Division of Research, Testing, and Evaluation, Pittsburgh Board of Public Education, 341 S. Bellefield Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213. His interests include educational measurement, especially that which contributes to and is supportive of the instructional process.;Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Board of Public Education, 341 S. Bellefield Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213. His specializations are educational leadership, program development and evaluation, and school administration. |
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| Abstract: | In this article, two school administrators argue that care must be taken to fit the specifics of a testing program to Its intended purpose. Specifically, they argue that the purposes of testing for diagnosing individual student teaming and for school evaluation should not be confused. They suggest that while typical systemwide testing programs may provide useful evaluative information, they suffer from several characteristics that make them hardly useful as sources of diagnostic information for guiding instruction in individual teachers' classes. |
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