The Concept of Validity: Revisions, New Directions and Applications
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
This conference is designed to explore a topic of long standing interest to education and Psychology. Validity is widely considered the most important subject of all of psychometrics. It is the ultimate justification for the use of tests and this set of speakers have spent much of their careers studying and contributing to the development of this argument to justify the application of a test in a context and for a purpose. We hope you will learn from these papers and from the book that will result from these presentations. The power point slides will be available on this web site just before and then after the conference and the resulting book will be available from IAP Information Age Publishing Inc. (Link)
Organizer and Moderator: Robert W. Lissitz
Speakers and Presentations:
Michael Kane ( National Conference of Bar Examiners ) Content-based Interpretations of Test Scores
Bob Linn (University of Colorado) The Concept of Validity in the Context of NCLB
Bill Schafer ( University of Maryland ) Necessary Validity Evidence for Statewide Assessments
Joel Michell (University of Sydney in Australia) Invalidity in Validity
Denny Borsboom (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) The End of Construct Validity
Wayne Camara (College Board) The Long and Winding Road: Researching the Validity of the SAT
Susan Embretson (Georgia Institute of Technology) Construct Validity as Universal System for Educational and Psychological Tests
Stephen Sireci (University of Massachusetts) Packing and Unpacking Sources of Validity Evidence: History Repeats Itself Again
Bruno Zumbo (University of British Columbia) Foundational and Methodological Issues in Validity for Complex Measurement Systems
Bob Mislevy (University of Maryland) Validity and Narrative Robustness
Micheline Chalhoub-Deville (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Context, Construct, and Interpretation
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The Maryland Assessment
Research Center for Education Success (MARCES) is a Center in the Department of
Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, College of Education and is directed
by Professor Robert W. Lissitz.