Frontiers of Test Validity Theory

Preface

There is much to capture the imagination in test validity theory. Unfortunately, the challenges and unsolved puzzles of test validity often do not come across as readily as they do in other areas of testing. In this book we seek to throw Pandora’s Box wide open and shine a light on the fantastic trove of complex and interconnected problems at the frontiers of test validity theory. In so doing, we hope to attract renewed attention and stimulate further advances in this critical domain of test theory. Arguably, there is no other domain as critical to effective test design, construction, interpretation and use. If scores derived from a test do not inform us about the desired construct, then it makes little difference how reliable, how precise, ...