Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Large-scale assessments for all students : issues and options / Gerald Tindal -- Validation of the uses and interpretations of results of state assessment and accountability systems / Robert L. Linn -- The relevance of Messsick's four faces for understanding the validity of high-stakes assessments / Russell Gersten and Scott Baker -- Variation in achievement scores related to gender, item format, and content area tested / Joseph M. Ryan and Sarah DeMark -- Supporting documentation : assuring more valid test score interpretations and uses / Thomas M. Haladyna -- Legal issues affecting special populations in large-scale testing programs / S.E. Phillips -- Consequences of assessment : what is the evidence? / William A. Mehrens -- Test dimensionality / Richard Tate -- Choosing an item format / Michael C. Rodriguez -- Incorporating classroom-based assessments into large-scale assessment programs / Catherine S. Taylor -- Monitoring raters in performance assessments / George Engelhard, Jr. -- Issues, strategies, and procedures for applying standards when multiple measures are employed / Joseph M. Ryan -- Linking bilingual mathematics assessments : a monolingual IRT approach / Seung W. Choi and Marty McCall -- Participation in large-scale state assessment and accountability systems / Patricia J. Almond ... [et al.] -- Assessment of English-language learners in the Oregon statewide assessment system : national and state perspectives / Richard P. Durn��?�, Catherine Brown, and Marty McCall -- Determining when test alterations are valid accommodations or modifications for large-scale assessment / Keith Hollenbeck -- A methodology for creating an alternative assessment system using modified measures / Robert Helwig -- Out-of-level testing revisited : new concerns in the era of standards-based reform / Martha L. Thurlow ... [et al.] -- Reporting results of student performance on large-scale assessments / Jim Ysseldyke and J. Ruth Nelson -- Research to improve large-scale testing / Thomas M. Haladyna.