Controversies in the Nordic countries
Sigrid Bl?meke
Required reading:
Compendium: Hammer, S. & Tvedten, S. (2011). Statistics on a website: Governing schools by numbers (pp. 207-223). In Rudinow S?tnan, A., Mork Lomell, H., & Hammer, S. (Eds.), The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society. New York: Routledge.
E-book (avaiable through UiO library): Seland I. & Hovdhaugen, E. (2016). National Tests in Norway: An Undeclared Standard in Education? Practical and Political Implications of Norm-Referenced Standards. In S. Bl?meke & J.-E. Gustafsson (Eds.), Standard Setting in Education: The Nordic countries in an international perspective (pp. 161-179). Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Tveit, S. (2014) Educational assessment in Norway. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 21, 221-237.
Ydesen, Ch., Ludvigsen, K., & Lundahl, Ch. (2013). Creating an Educational Testing Profession in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, 1910-1960. European Educational Research Journal, 12(1).
Further reading:
Oftedal Telhauga, A., Media, O. A., & Aasen, P. (2006). The Nordic Model in Education: Education as part of the political system in the last 50 years. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 50, 245–283.
E-book (avaiable through UiO library) Vainikainen, M.-P., Thuneberg, H., Marjanen, J., Hautam?ki, J., Kupiainen, S., & Hotulainen, R. (2016). How Do Finns Know? Educational Monitoring without Inspection and Standard Setting. In Bl?meke & J.-E. Gustafsson (Eds.), Standard Setting in Education: The Nordic countries in an international perspective (pp. 243-259). Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Wandall, J. (2013). Education, Testing, and Validity: A Nordic Comparative Perspective.
The Controversy around Intelligence Testing
Johan Braeken
Required reading:
Gottfredson, L. S. (2009). Logical fallacies used to dismiss the evidence on intelligence testing. In Correcting fallacies about educational and psychological testing (pp. 11–65). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association.
Deary, I. J., Strand, S., Smith, P., & Fernandes, C. (2007). Intelligence and educational achievement. Intelligence, 35, 13–21.
Martschenko, D. (2017). The IQ test wars: why screening for intelligence is still so controversial.
Further reading:
Deary, I. J. (2012). Intelligence. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 453–482.
Ritchie, S. (2015). Intelligence: All That Matters. Hachette UK.
http://www.unz.com/jthompson/something-rotten-in-the-state-of-sweden-gottfredson-dis-invited/
https://www.intelltheory.com/index.shtml
Why and how should we report measurement errors for test scores?
Rolf Vegar Olsen
Required reading:
Gardner, J. (2013). The public understanding of error in educational assessment. Oxford Review of Education, 39(1), 72-92.
Newton, P. (2005). The public understanding of measurement inaccuracy. British Educational Research Journal, 31(4), 419
Further reading:
Hopster-den Otter, D., Muilenburg, S. N., Wools, S., Veldkamp, B. P., & Eggen, T. J. H. M. (2018). Comparing the influence of various measurement error presentations in test score reports on educational decision-making. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 1-20.
Newton, P. E. (2005). Threats to the professional understanding of assessment error. Journal of Education Policy, 20(4), 457-483.
The controversies around international large-scale assessments (ILSA) – in Norway and across the world
Rolf Vegar Olsen
Required reading:
Prais, S. J. (2003). Cautions on OECD's Recent Educational Survey (PISA). Oxford Review of Education, 29(2), 139-163.
Adams, R. (2003). Response to 'Cautions on OECD's Recent Educational Survey (PISA)'. Oxford Review of Education, 29(3), 377-289.
Prais, S. J. (2004). Cautions on OECD's recent educational survey (PISA): rejoinder to OECD's response. Oxford Review of Education, 30(4), 569-573.
Further reading:
Rutkowski, L., & Rutkowski, D. (2016). A Call for a More Measured Approach to Reporting and Interpreting PISA Results. 45(4), 252-257.
Braeken, J. (2016). International large-scale assessments: Elephants at the gate? In Northern Lights on PISA and TALIS. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers.
All the Same or Different? Jingle-Jangle Fallacies in the Measurement of Cognitive Skills
Ronny Scherer
Required reading:
Ackerman, P. L., Beier, M. E., & Boyle, M. O. (2005). Working Memory and Intelligence: The Same or Different Constructs? Psychological Bulletin, 131(1), 30-60.
Oberauer, K., Schulze, R., Wilhelm, O., & Sü?, H.-M. (2005). Working Memory and Intelligence--Their Correlation and Their Relation: Comment on Ackerman, Beier, and Boyle (2005). Psychological Bulletin, 131(1), 61-65.
Friedman, N. P., Miyake, A., Corley, R. P., Young, S. E., DeFries, J. C., & Hewitt, J. K. (2006). Not All Executive Functions Are Related to Intelligence. Psychological Science, 17(2), 172–179.
Further reading:
Marsh, H. W., Pekrun, R., Parker, P. D., Murayama, K., Guo, J., Dicke, T., & Arens, A. K. (2019). The murky distinction between self-concept and self-efficacy: Beware of lurking jingle-jangle fallacies. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(2), 331-353.
The (Never-)Ending Story of Cronbach’s Alpha
Ronny Scherer
Required reading:
McNeish, D. (2018). Thanks coefficient alpha, we’ll take it from here. Psychological Methods, 23(3), 412-433.
Raykov, T., & Marcoulides, G. A. (2019). Thanks Coefficient Alpha, We Still Need You! Educational and Psychological Measurement, 79(1), 200–210.
Further reading:
Green, S. B. and Yang, Y. (2015), Evaluation of Dimensionality in the Assessment of Internal Consistency Reliability: Coefficient Alpha and Omega Coefficients. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 34, 14-20.
Interpreting and using statistical models
Bj?rn Andersson
Required reading:
Mislevy, R.J. (2009). Validity from the perspective of model-based reasoning. In R.L. Lissitz (Ed.), The concept of validity: Revisions, new directions and applications. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Sinharay, S., & Haberman, S. J. (2014). How often is the misfit of item response theory models practically significant?. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 33(1), 23-35.
Recommended reading:
Box, G. E. (1976). Science and statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 71(356), 791-799.?