Four Metaphors We Need to Understand Assessment AP NAEP

Author(s):

Mislevy, Robert J.

Publication Year:

2013

Source:

Paper prepared for The Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education

Document Type:

Report

Page Count:

36

Subject/Key Words:

Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement, Practice, Feedback, Advanced Placement Program (AP), Studio Art, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Assessment Design, The Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education

Abstract

Different communities come to assessment with different metaphors dominating their thinking, and are grounded in familiar assessment practices more than on underlying principles. The author of this paper is asked to explore the conceptual foundations of assessment through the lens provided by these four metaphors (evidentiary argument, practice, feedback loop, and measurement) which are used as a ‘technical’ foundation for assessment, intertwined with but distinguishable from social and policy aspects of assessment.

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