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Committee on Equivalency and Linkage of Educational Tests
The purpose of the equivalency and linking study is to evaluate the feasibility of developing an equivalency scale to compare the results from existing state and/or commercial tests of mathematics and reading and link them to each other and to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Among the issues that the study will address are the following:
- linking studies, focusing on methodological issues;
- existing state and commercial tests focusing on content, use, and psychometric properties;
- existing efforts to link state assessments to NAEP; and
- conditions necessary to facilitate linking and equating across multiple state and/or commercial test programs.
Roster:
Paul W. Holland, (chair), School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Patricia A. Kenney, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
William F. Tate., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Robert C. Calfee, School of Education, Stanford University
John T. Guthrie, Professor, Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park
Vonda L. Kiplinger, Assessment Specialist, Colorado Department of Education, Student Assessment Unit, Denver
Doris Redfield, Educational Consultant, Richmond, VA
Richard M. Jaeger, Nations Bank Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA
Daniel M. Koretz, Senior Social Scientist, RAND, Washington, DC
David Thissen, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lauress L. Wise, President, Human Resources Research Organization, Alexandria, VA
Peter J. Pashley, Director of Psychometrics, Law School Admission Council, Newtown, PA
Frederick C. Mosteller, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Ewart A.C. Thomas, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Publications:
For further information contact:
Kelly Iverson
Board on Testing and Assessment
National Research Council
500 5th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
E-mail: bota1@nas.edu
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