Validity, reliability, fairness, and positive consequences (for the student and teacher) influence my assessment portfolio many different ways. The validity and reliability was important for my test development and to give clarity. I constructed “Table of Specifications for Test” as a blueprint in Section III of my Assessment Portfolio. As McMillian (2014) emphasized on the terms validity of the test “is used, but it is more accurate to say the validity of the interpretation, inference, or use the results” (p. 65). To be sure that I have created assessment that allow me to make appropriate inferences regarding to the dental hygiene student performance in a content area; I should feel confident that I can attribute as a teacher contribution to this performance. I thought about it, …show more content…
What I have gather is validity is stronger when you are confident and when you are making appropriate inference by measuring what we are claiming to measure. “For classroom assessment reliability is concerned with the consistency, stability, and dependability of the scores and decisions based on the scores” (McMillian, 2014, p. 71). I realize that you can never have da perfect reliability, due to the fact I can never eliminate all measurement of error, but can test simply provide an estimate of the students true score. Therefore, my main goal is to create an assessment to get a close to an accurate estimate as possible.
Utilizing the term fair assessment draw reasonably good conclusions about what students have learned and give equitable