Design, Analysis, And Reporting in Large-scale Assessment

This monograph is a technical explication of the relationships betweendata-gathering methods and reporting methods in large-scaleeducational assessments, with the focus on 'marketbasket' reporting.Complex survey-based assessments such as the National Assessment forEducational Progress (NAEP) use advanced data-gathering designs suchas student- and item-sampling. Analyzing and reporting the resultingdata falls outside the methods of familiar every-pupil testing, andsophisticated models and analyses need to be carried out to bring thedata to a common reporting scale. Marketbasket reporting, or thereporting of results in a form that can be understood in terms ofscores on a tangible collection of actual test items, has beenproposed as a way to make the results of complex surveys moreaccessible to consumers of the data.For the first time anywhere, this book fully explains the definitions,concepts, methods, and issues that underlie marketbasket reporting ina clear and rigorous presentation, and illustrates the ideas withactual data from NAEP. This knowledge is essential for sound policydecisions, assessment design, data analysis, and reporting.Mislevy, Robert is the author of 'Design, Analysis, And Reporting in Large-scale Assessment ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780387400853 and ISBN 0387400850.