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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Curriculum-based assessment
Disabilities
Educational evaluation
Educational Researchers
Elementary Secondary Education
Grade 4
Instructional Effectiveness
Instructional Improvement
Learning Disabilities
Mathematics
Mathematics education
Mathematics Instruction
Medical sciences
Preschool Children
Psychoeducational assessment
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Special education
Special education. Orthophony
Special needs children
Student Evaluation
Teaching Methods
Treatments
Validity
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