Advancing Human Assessment: The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS

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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.​​ This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world’s leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book’s four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific psychology, and validity. Many of the developments presented have become de-facto standards in educational and psychological measurement, including in item response theory (IRT), linking and equating, differential item functioning (DIF), and educational surveys like the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Programme of international Student Assessment (PISA), the Progress of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In addition to its comprehensive coverage of contributions to the theory and methodology of educational and psychological measurement and statistics, the book gives significant attention to ETS work in cognitive, personality, developmental, and social psychology, and to education policy analysis and program evaluation. The chapter authors are long-standing experts who provide broad coverage and thoughtful insights that build upon decades of experience in research and best practices for measurement, evaluation, scientific psychology, and education policy analysis. Opening with a chapter on the genesis of ETS and closing with a synthesis of the enormously diverse set of contributions made over its 70-year history, the book is a useful resource for all interested in the improvement of human assessment. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv What Does It Mean to Be a Nonprofit Educational Measurement Organization in the Twenty-First Century? (Randy E. Bennett)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 A Review of Developments and Applications in Item Analysis (Tim Moses)....Pages 19-46 Psychometric Contributions: Focus on Test Scores (Tim Moses)....Pages 47-78 Contributions to Score Linking Theory and Practice (Neil J. Dorans, Gautam Puhan)....Pages 79-132 Item Response Theory (James E. Carlson, Matthias von Davier)....Pages 133-178 Research on Statistics (Henry Braun)....Pages 179-200 Contributions to the Quantitative Assessment of Item, Test, and Score Fairness (Neil J. Dorans)....Pages 201-230 Front Matter ....Pages 231-231 Large-Scale Group-Score Assessment (Albert E. Beaton, John L. Barone)....Pages 233-284 Large-Scale Assessments of Adult Literacy (Irwin Kirsch, Mary Louise Lennon, Kentaro Yamamoto, Matthias von Davier)....Pages 285-310 Modeling Change in Large-Scale Longitudinal Studies of Educational Growth: Four Decades of Contributions to the Assessment of Educational Growth (Donald A. Rock)....Pages 311-339 Evaluating Educational Programs (Samuel Ball)....Pages 341-362 Contributions to Education Policy Research (Richard J. Coley, Margaret E. Goertz, Gita Z. Wilder)....Pages 363-387 Front Matter ....Pages 389-389 Research on Cognitive, Personality, and Social Psychology: I (Lawrence J. Stricker)....Pages 391-412 Research on Cognitive, Personality, and Social Psychology: II (Nathan Kogan)....Pages 413-452 Research on Developmental Psychology (Nathan Kogan, Lawrence J. Stricker, Michael Lewis, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn)....Pages 453-486 Front Matter ....Pages 487-487 Research on Validity Theory and Practice at ETS (Michael Kane, Brent Bridgeman)....Pages 489-552 Understanding the Impact of Special Preparation for Admissions Tests (Donald E. Powers)....Pages 553-564 A Historical Survey of Research Regarding Constructed-Response Formats (Isaac I. Bejar)....Pages 565-633 Advancing Human Assessment: A Synthesis Over Seven Decades (Randy E. Bennett, Matthias von Davier)....Pages 635-687 Back Matter ....Pages 689-711