ABSTRACT
The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (American Educational Research Association [AERA], American Psychological Association [APA], & National Council on Measurement in Education [NCME], 2014) were written primarily for psychometricians who work on large-scale educational assessments, licensure and certification tests, and workplace assessments. Some psychometricians suggest that the Standards could be useful to guide classroom assessment. We test that claim by selecting 12 psychometric standards that are likely to be relevant to classroom assessment and translating them into formulations that might make sense to teachers, for use with four types of classroom assessments. We conclude that it is possible to make translations that are reasonably relevant to classroom assessment practices, that translation of the psychometric standards should be combined with the Classroom Assessment Standards (Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, 2015) to ensure full coverage of all considerations in classroom assessment, and that any translation of psychometric standards for classroom assessment must be formulated into language and concepts that are relevant to and informed by teachers.
