The Burden of Proof: Validity as Improvement of Instructional Practice
This article examines the validity of recent efforts to improve instructional assessment in mathematics for special education students. The article concludes that, to claim that an assessment is valid for informing instruction, researchers must present evidence indicating that the assessment informa...
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