Jay Rosner Smarter Balanced is what test experts call a “criterion-referenced” test, which is simply designed to find out whether students know the material. Most school teachers write and use ...

Methods A search of four databases was undertaken to identify papers that reported criterion-referenced CRF standards for children and youth generated using the receiver operating characteristic curve ...

The promise of criterion-referenced tests is that the test-makers presumably determine in advance that students “ought” to know certain things and be able to do certain operations in a given ...

Ronald A. Berk, A Consumer's Guide to Setting Performance Standards on Criterion-Referenced Tests, Review of Educational Research, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Spring, 1986), pp. 137-172 ...

A big part of my confusion comes from the use of norm-referenced tests. For my middle school student, the NRTs used were the Terra Nova test in mathematics and the Stanford 10 reading test.

Michael J. Subkoviak, Estimating Reliability from a Single Administration of a Criterion-Referenced Test, Journal of Educational Measurement, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter, 1976), pp. 265-276 ...