Table of Contents:
  • Debra P. v. Turlington : judicial standards for assessing the validity of minimum competency tests / Diana Pullin
  • Minimum competency testing for certification : the evolution and evaluation of test validity / George F. Madaus
  • Validity and competency tests : the Debra P. case, conceptions of validity, and strategies for the future / Walt Haney
  • Establishing instructional validity for minimum competency programs / Robert Calfee, with Edmund Lau and Lynne Sutter
  • Curricular validity : convincing the court that it was taught without precluding the possibility of measuring it / Robert L. Linn
  • Validity as a variable : can the same certification test be valid for all students? / William H. Schmidt [and others]
  • Overlap : testing whether it is taught / Gaea Leinhardt
  • What constitutes curricular validity in a high-school-leaving examination / Decker F. Walker
  • Curricular validity : the case for structure and process / Richard L. Venezky
  • Minimum competency testing of reading : an analysis of eight tests designed for grade 11 / Jeanne S. Chall, Ann Freeman, Benjamin Levy
  • The search for content validity through world knowledge / Roger W. Shuy.