Assessment Capacity, Cultural Validity, and Consequential Validity in PISA

Authors

  • Guillermo Solano-Flores Stanford University
  • Tamara Milbourn University of Colorado Boulder

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/relieve.22.1.8281

Keywords:

PISA, assessment capacity, cultural validity, consequential validity.

Abstract

International student assessments have played an increasing important role in educational policy. These international test comparisons generate valuable information about each participating country’s student performance and the social and contextual factors. A complex picture of the cultural, economic, and social factors that shape PISA participation is emerging. We aim to understand the relationship between national assessment capacity and how countries participate in international test comparisons. We propose a framework for examining assessment capacity as key to addressing two aspects of validity cultural and consequential. Also, we discuss the multiple facets of assessment capacity as conditions for addressing cultural validity and consequential validity in international test comparisons.

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Author Biographies

Guillermo Solano-Flores, Stanford University

is the corresponding author for this article. He is professor of education at the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, US. He specializes in educational assessment and the linguistic and cultural issues that are relevant to both international test comparisons and the testing of cultural and linguistic minorities. His contributions to the field of educational assessment include the theory of test translation error, the use of generalizability theory—a psychometric theory of measurement error—in the testing of linguistic minorities, the formalization of the concept of cultural validity, and the design of a methodology for designing and analyzing illustrations used in test items

Tamara Milbourn, University of Colorado Boulder

is a Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice at the University of Colorado Boulder with a Master's Degree in Applied English Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US. Her work examines the experiences of international students on American campuses. She is interested in issues in education related to mono/multi-lingualism, with an emphasis on issues of equity as connected to language practices and academic norms. She has worked in Taiwan, Japan and Benin and is currently teaching educational policy and linguistics courses in the University of Colorado System.

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Published

2016-07-08

How to Cite

Solano-Flores, G., & Milbourn, T. (2016). Assessment Capacity, Cultural Validity, and Consequential Validity in PISA. RELIEVE – Electronic Journal of Educational Research and Evaluation, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.7203/relieve.22.1.8281

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Special Section

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