From the Book - First edition.
1. Global forces and educational assessment
a forward on why we need an international dialogue on validity and test use / Madhabi Chatterji
Section 1. Validity, Fairness and Testing of Individuals in High Stakes Decision-making Contexts. 2. Validity and Fairness in the Testing of Individuals / Michael Kane
3. Standardized Assessments and Implications for Improving Test and Sampling Designs : Applying Kane's Principles for Validation / Alina A. von Davier
4. Is Fairness Research Doing Justice? A Modest Proposal for an Alternative Validation Approach in Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Investigations / Kadriye Ercikan and Maria Elena Oliveri
5. Fairness and Validity from the Viewpoints of Different Assessment Actors : A French Reaction to Michael Kane's Contribution / Sébastien Georges
6. The Gordon Commission's Perspectives on the Future of Assessment : Looking Beyond Kane's View / Edmund W. Gordon
Section 2. Validity Issues in Models of Teacher Evaluation and School Accountability. 7. Evaluation-Centred School Improvement : Potential, Prerequisites, and Validity Considerations / Adríe Visscher
8. Education, Testing, and Validity: A Nordic Comparative Perspective / Jakob Wandall
9. Reflections on rationality, evidence and issues of validity : evaluating schools and teachers / Aaron Pallas
10. International parallels in responses to accountability requirements : validity considerations / Drew H. Gitomer
11. Addressing validity and other challenges in evaluation-centered school improvement models : possibilities in the Netherlands and Malaysia / Haniza Yon
Section 3. Validity issues in international large-scale assessment (ILSA) programs. 12. Validity issues in International Large Scale Assessment programs : "Truth or consequences" / Michael J. Feuer
13. International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs and the challenges of consequential validity / Hans Wagemaker
14. Validity issues in International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs : thoughts for developing countries / Eduardo Backhoff
15. Validity and International Large Scale Assessment programs : a reaction to Feuer's "Truth" and "Consequences" / Valena White Plisko
16. Applying Feuer's validation framework in a Canadian context : a look at International Large Scale Assessment programs / Robert Laurie
17. Insights, emerging taxonomies, and theories of action towards improving validity / Madhabi Chatterji.
