EdSource · California program offers $500 in scholarships, but many students miss out Smarter Balanced is what test experts call a “criterion-referenced” test, which is simply designed to find out ...

Purpose To identify criterion-referenced ... criterion-referenced CRF standards for children and youth generated using the receiver operating characteristic curve technique. A pseudo-dataset ...

And the public and news media never understood that the test was designed to get that result. The promise of criterion-referenced tests is that the test-makers presumably determine in advance that ...