- ERIC Digests
A ERIC Digest describing the differences between CRTs and NRTs as well as explanations of the most appropriate uses of each.
- Why Standardized Tests Don't Measure Educational Quality
An article written by Jim Popham on standardized testing. There are a number of important components of this article that would be helpful to students.
- The Use of Tests as Part of High-Stakes Decision Making for Students: A resource Guide for Educators and Policy Makers
This resource guide was developed by OCR in an effort to relevant information regarding test measurement standards, legal principles, and resources to help educators and policy-makers ensure that uses of tests as a part of decision-making that has high-stakes consequences for students are educationally sound and legally appropriate. The resource guide is intended to reflect existing test measurement and legal principles.
- Hints for Designing Questionnaires
This is an online journal article the purpose of which is to offer tips in designing quality questionnaires and on avoiding common errors. Some of the more prevalent problems in questionnaire development are identified and suggestions of ways to avoid them are offered.
- A Brief Guide to Questionnaire Development
This online journal article identifies some of the more prevalent problems in questionnaire development and suggests ways of avoiding them.
- Questionnaire and Survey Design
This is a tutorial for designing questionnaires and surveys. There are twenty-four topics ranging covering a host of important issues (e.g., general comments of questionnaire and survey methods, questionnaire design, cover letters, anonymity and confidentiality, non-responses, etc.).
- Questionnaires
This is an interesting USINACTS tutorial on questionnaires. The following topics are addressed: questionnaires and their use, important principles in design and application, developing a questionnaire, practical issues in questionnaire design, reliability and validity, and motivation and administration.
- Interviews
This is an interesting USINACTS tutorial on interviews. Two topics are addressed: using interviews and interviewing guidelines.
- Buros Institute
This is the homepage for Buros Institute where you can access a wealth of factual information on all known tests. Objective test reviews are available, as are comprehensive bibliographies for specific tests. Indices are provided for titles, acronyms, subject, and publishers and developers.
- Tests in Print
This site contains a bibliography of all known commercially published tests that are currently available.
- ETS Test Collection
This site provides access to the ETS Test Collection, an index of published and unpublished tests. Citations include the test title, author, publication date, target population, publisher, and a description of the purpose of the test. There are annotated bibliographies for achievement, aptitude, attitudes and interests, personality, sensory motor, special populations, vocational/occupational, and miscellaneous tests.
- ERIC/AE Test Locator
This site allows you access to citations about a particular instrument and offers searches for names and addresses of test publishers.
- Test Evaluation
This is a short paper by Lawrence M. Rudner that discusses the criteria against which you should evaluate a test being considered for use. The paper briefly addresses nine specific areas: test coverage and use, appropriate samples for validation and norming, reliability, predictive validity, content validity, construct validity, test administration, test reporting, and test and item bias. There is a wealth of practical advice as well as specific questions that can be used to guide your evaluation of each area.
