Principle 3: Management by Teachers
For information fromthe assessment tasks and the BEAR analysis to be useful
to instructors and students, it must be couched in terms that are directly related
to the instructional goals associated with the progress variables. Constructed
response tasks, if used, must be quickly, readily, and reliably scorable. The
categories into which the scores are sorted must be readily interpreted in an
educational setting, whether it is within a classroom, by a parent, or in a policy analysis setting. The requirement for transparency in the relationship between
scores and actual student responses to an item leads to the third building block.