Validating Measures of Performance

By Michael Kane, T. Crooks, Allan S. Cohen. 2005

286 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Education, Management Science and Operations Research

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In Applied Psychology

1. Michael Kane

In Education

1. Lyle F. Bachman
2. Tim McNamara
3. Michael Kane
4. Torulf Palm
5. P. Vos
6. Robert J. Mislevy
7. L. Harding
8. U. Knoch

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Tim McNamara
2. Lyle F. Bachman
3. Michael Kane
4. Yong-Won Lee
5. Jörg Henseler
6. Bruno D. Zumbo
7. Eric K. H. Chan
8. U. Knoch

Citations in the corpus

• Performance Assessment and Authentic Assessment: A Conceptual Analysis of the Literature (2008, background): “It has to be seen in relation to the particular performance of interest; “the defining characteristic of a performance assessment is the close similarity between the type of performance that is actually observed and the type of performance that is of interest” (Kane et al., 1999, p. 6-7).”
• Building and Supporting a Case for Test Use (2005, background): “Kane (2001, 2002, 2004) has begun to address the role of test use in validation by extending the interpretive argument described by (Kane et al., 1999).”
• Dependability of scores for a new ESL speaking assessment consisting of integrated and independent tasks (2006, background): “In G-theory, the universe score for any individual examinee is defined to be her expected average score across all possible measurement conditions including tasks, raters, and occasions (Kane et al., 1999; Brennan, 2001).”
• Validity in Language Testing: The Challenge of Sam Messick's Legacy (2006, background): “The response within language testing to Messick’s concern for the consequences of test use has been vigorous, as evidenced in the enormous upsurge of interest in the area over the last 10 years. Whereas 25 years ago Spolsky (1980) was a lone voice talking about ethics, the theme has been very widely”
• Certification Testing as an Illustration of Argument-Based Validation (2004, background): “, skill in elementary arithmetic), it is more difficult to make a case for the validity of any test as a direct measure of performance, but it is not necessarily impossible (e.g., Crooks & Flockton, 1996; Flockton & Crooks, 1997, 2002a, 2002b; Kane et al., 1999; Newmann, 1992).”