Buros-Nebraska Series on Measurement and Testing
Date of this Version
1995
Document Type
Article
Citation
Licensure Testing: Purposes, Procedures, and Practices, ed. James C. Impara (Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1995).
Abstract
Licensure Testing: Purposes, Procedures, And Practices
Contents
Dedication
Preface
SECTION ONE: Purposes and Policy Issues
1. What is Licensure?
Kara Schmitt
2. Legal and Professional Bases for Licensure Testing
William A. Mehrens
3. Policy Issues with Psychometric Implications
Michael Rosenfeld, Richard J. Tannenbaum, and Scott Wesley
SECTION TWO: Procedures
Overview of the Licensure Testing Process
James C. Impara
4. Practice Analysis: Building the Foundation for Validity
Joan Knapp and Lenora Knapp
5. Test Development: Systematic Item Writing and Test Construction
Anthony LaDuca, Steven Downing, and Thomas Henzel
6. Developing and Using Clinical Examinations
Jimmie Fortune and Ted Cromack
7. Basic Psychometric Issues in Licensure Testing
Howard W. Stoker and James C. Impara
8. Item Banking
Betty A. Bergstrom and Richard C. Gershon
9. Differential Item Functioning in Licensure Tests
Barbara S. Plake
10. Setting Cut Scores
Craig Mills
11. Equating
Judy Shea and John Norcini
SECTION THREE: Emerging Practices
12. Computerized Testing in Licensure
David Vale
13. Future Psychometric Practices in Licensure Testing
Steve Nettles
Author Index
Subject Index
Included in
Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Other Education Commons
Comments
Copyright © 1995 by Buros Institute of Mental Measurements. Digital Edition copyright © 2012 Buros Center for Testing.