Links to Measurement Related Resources
On line Tutorial explaining the logic of Computer Adaptive Testing.
Educational Resources Information Center ERIC
Practical Assessment Research and Evaluation (PARE).
Research Methods & Statistics Links
Journals
ERIC; Clearinghouse on Assessment & Evaluation
Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science
Professional Organizations
Computer Based Testing at ETS.
The American Educational Research Association. AERA is the most prominent international professional organization with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application.
The National Assessment Governing Board. NAGB is a 26-member board established by Congress in 1988 to set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations.
The National Council on Measurement in Education is an organization that is incorporated exclusively for scientific, educational, literary, and charitable purposes.
The Office of Educational Assessment (OEA) is dedicated to the improvement of educational practice through evaluation of educational programs and services, and through the assessment of teaching and learning.
Food for thought (excerpt from Peter Berger's Comments): You can't attain understanding without knowledge, and you can't acquire knowledge without mastering facts. You can't skip the grunt work.... That's true in any discipline. True, grappling with facts and turning them into knowledge can be hard work. But reckoning with ignorance is even harder.
Note: Analytical prowess itself only strengthens our ability to reason when it is employed to answer well constructed questions. Take for example this excerpt from a web article:
When statistics are used in a court of law the effect can be just as misleading. Mlodinow recalls the O. J. Simpson trial, in which the prosecution depicted the defendant as an inveterate wife abuser. One of Simpson’s lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, countered with statistics: in the United States, four million women are battered every year by their male partners, yet only one in 2,500 is ultimately murdered by her partner.
The jury may have found that persuasive, but it’s a spurious argument. Nicole Brown Simpson was already dead. The relevant question was, what percentage of all battered women who are murdered are killed by their abusers. The answer, Mlodinow notes, didn’t come up in the trial. It was 90 percent.