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 ...

In this paper, an attempt has been made to synthesize some of the current thinking in the area of criterion-referenced testing as well as to provide the beginning of an integration of theory and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.