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UMass Center for Educational Assessment
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| The Center for Educational Assessment has been working with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education over the past 10 years to prepare reports that address the validity of different aspects of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). The Center retained control of all technical aspects of the work, and is completely responsible for all conclusions that are made in these reports. A complete list of all reports witha brief statement of contents for each can be found here. Comments on any of the reports can be sent to Ronald Hambleton at rkh @ educ.umass.edu. |
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| MCAS Validity Report 1 | DIF Detection and Interpretation in Large-Scale Science Assessments: Informing Item Writing Practices April L. Zenisky, Ronald K. Hambleton, and Frederic Robin Report Date: March 17, 2003 |
| MCAS Validity Report 2 | Evaluating the Consistency of Test Content across Two Successive Administrations of a State-Mandated Science and Technology Assessment Timothy O'Neil, Stephen G. Sireci, and Kristen L. Huff Report Date: April 2002 |
| MCAS Validity Report 3 | Comparing the Psychometric Properties of Monolingual and Dual Language Test Forms Stephen G. Sireci and Shameem Nyla Khaliq Report Date: June 30, 2002 |
| MCAS Validity Report 4 | Student Test Score Reports and Interpretive Guides: Review of Current Practices and Suggestions for Future Research Dean P. Goodman and Ronald K. Hambleton Report Date: June 19, 2003 |
| MCAS Validity Report 5 | A Multitrait-Multimethod Validity Investigation of the 2002 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Tests
Dean Goodman Report Date: April 30, 2004 |
| MCAS Validity Report 6 | Comparison of Trends in NAEP, Massachusetts-NAEP, and MCAS Results Stephen J. Jirka and Ronald K. Hambleton Report Date: July 4, 2004 |
| MCAS Validity Report 7 | Alignment of MCAS Grade 10 English Language Arts and Mathematics Assessments with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and the Test Specifications Ronald K. Hambleton and Yue Zhao Report Date: December 18, 2004 |
| MCAS Validity Report 8 | MCAS 2001 Grade 10 ELA and Mathematics Model Fit Analyses NIng Han Report Date: December 8, 2003 |
| MCAS Validity Report 9 | Evaluating the Fit between Test Content, Instruction, and Curriculum Frameworks: A Review of Methods for Evaluating Test Alignment Shuhong Li and Stephen G. Sireci Report Date: June 30, 2005 |
| MCAS Validity Report 10 | Cognitive Complexity Levels for the MCAS Assessments Stephen J. Jirka and Ronald K. Hambleton Report Date: September 20, 2005 |
| MCAS Validity Report 11 | Test-Curriculum Alignment Study for MCAS Grades 4 and 7 ELA and Grades 4, 6, and 8 Mathematics Ronald K. Hambleton and Yue Zhao Report Date: November 24, 2005 |
| MCAS Validity Report 12 | Alignment of the MCAS Assessments To State Content Standards: An Example Stephen J. Jirka and Ronald K. Hambleton Report Date: September 20, 2005 |
| MCAS Validity Report 13 | Vertical Scaling for the MCAS Craig Wells and Lisa Keller Report Date: August 30, 2005 |
| MCAS Validity Report 14 | Investigation of MCAS-NAEP Comparisons and Other External Validity Evidence Stephen J. Jirka and Ronald K. Hambleton Report Date: June 30, 2005 |
| MCAS Validity Report 15 | MCAS 2006 Curriculum-Test Alignment Study Update Ronald K. Hambleton, Yue Zhao, and Zachary R. Smith Report Date: November 10, 2006 |
| MCAS Validity Report 16 | Test-Curriculum Alignment Study for New MCAS Tests in 2006: Grade 3 Reading, Grades 5, 6, and 8 English Language Arts, and Grades 3, 5, and 7 Mathematics Ronald K. Hambleton, Zachary R. Smith, and Yue Zhao Report Date: November 10, 2006 |
| MCAS Validity Report 17 | Psychometric Analyses of the 2006 MCAS High School Science and Technology/Engineering Tests Ronald K. Hambleton, Yue Zhao, Zachary Smith, Wendy Lam, and Nina Deng Report Date: January 30, 2008 |
| MCAS Validity Report 18 | Redesign of MCAS Tests Based on a Consideration of Information Functions Ronald K. Hambleton and Wendy Lam Report Date: January 9, 2009 |
| MCAS Validity Report 19 | MCAS Equating Research Report: An Investigation of FCIP-1, FCIP-2, and Stocking and Lord Equating Methods Lisa A. Keller, Ronald K. Hambleton, Pauline Parker, and Jenna Copella Report Date: December 10, 2008 |
| MCAS Validity Report 20 | Judging the Content and Statistical Equivalence of MCAS Operational and Linking Items Nina Deng, Tia Sukin, and Ronald K. Hambleton Report Date: May 25, 2009 |
This repository is a work-in-progress, and will be updated as additional reports become available.
Last Updated: November 19, 2011.
