In many test development projects, the test developers depend on
subject-matter experts to help with domain analysis. In fact, the
same sources of information are used in traditional test development
and in ECD: committees of subject-matter experts, curriculum
analyses, task analyses, surveys of teachers of the tested subject,
surveys of job incumbents, states’ and professional organizations’
content standards, popular textbooks, and the like. The test
developers themselves are not expected to become expert in every
domain in which they work. They are, however, expected to know
how to elicit the necessary information to complete the domain
analysis.