At 07:03 AM 10/5/01 -0500, Olsen, Chris wrote: >Professor Gallagher and All -- > > > It would appear that neither the "appeal systems" nor a claim of >"technical adequacy" would be a response to your concern about bad >questions. The claim of technical adequacy, i.e. "that good students tend >to answer them correctly anyway, but poor students don't" does not, to my >mind, constitute technical adequacy.
this is absolutely correct ... all they have to go on is the score on the test ... if we toss in "ability" on something else as a defense ... then, why give them THIS test in the first place? _________________________________________________________ dennis roberts, educational psychology, penn state university 208 cedar, AC 8148632401, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
