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Psychometricians’ Beliefs About Learning

Apr 1990

Lorrie A. Shepard

This paper examines the beliefs that psychometricians hold about learning. What models or conceptions of teaching and learning do measurement specialists invoke when they make mental decisions about testing practice?

Shepard, L. A. (1990). Psychometricians’ beliefs about learning (CSE Report 318). Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST).