Validity Investigation for Education and the Workplace Program (VIEW)

Scoring accuracy and reliability investigations.

Quality assurance studies of psychometric processing.
(parameter estimation, scaling, equating, and production of scoring tables)

Independently replicates testing companies’ procedures as a safeguard against errors.

Studies of the alignment of test items to content standards.

Adherence to Universal Design principles.

Bias review.

Item quality review.
(quality of distracters, readability of prompts, etc.)

Differential functioning of items for subgroups of test-takers.

Estimations of achievement gaps among various tested groups.

Estimations of gap closure or widening.

Investigations of the existence and magnitude of differential impact.

Correlating one assessment with another.
(convergent/discriminant validity)

Estimations of gap closure or widening.

Linking assessment scores with other variables.
(e.g., grades, college admittance, job success)

Linking assessment scores with curricular and instructional variables.

Investigating the intended and unintended consequences of assessments or programs.

Often accompanied by focus groups.

Interviews, surveys, etc., with various stakeholders.

Assisting clients in articulating the objectives of their assessments and programs to identify the claims that need to be investigated and substantiated to obtain those objectives.

Using the Theory of Action as the guiding framework, we design and conduct studies to address gaps in evidence to support the claims in the Theory of Action.

Evaluating the impact of teacher training programs

Investigating the validity of teacher credentialing programs

Identifying predictors of college & career readiness