Student Profile Scoring for Formative Assessment

摘要: This paper is adapted from an invited address delivered by Professor Stout and a symposium presentation Dr. DiBello at the 2001 International Meeting of Psychometric Society, Osaka, Japan. first IMPS meeting to be held in Japan was auspicious occasion for bringing together statisticians psychometricians with their North American European colleagues. It provided important forum discussing new opportunities assessment twenty-first century that result fortuitous conjunction heightened public attention school effectiveness psychometric methods allow practical operationalization more complex cognitive models. In this we recall term formative as it used education, define class scoring procedures called student profile scoring. We describe aspects mostly summative US No Child Left Behind legislation. outline simple modeling reflected reparameterized unified model. close call paradigm shift moves testing industry beyond almost exclusive focus on low dimensional, data reductionist include based richer, substantively-grounded