Validity of Educational Assessments in Chile and Latin America

Introduction; Jorge Manzi, María Rosa García, y Sandy Taut.- Is validation a luxury or an indispensable asset for educational evaluation systems?; Sandy Taut and Siugmin Lay.- Section I. VALIDITY OF STUDENT LEARNING ASSESSMENTS.- 1 How to ensure the validity of national appraisal assessments? Priority criteria for Latin America and the Caribbean; María José Ramírez and Gilbert Valverde.- 2 Contemporary practices in the curricular validation of national appraisal assessments in Latin America: a comparative case study of Chile, Mexico and Peru; Gilbert Valverde an María José Ramírez.- 3 Learning Progress Assessment System, SEPA: evidence of its reliability and validity; Andrea Abarzúa and Johana Contreras.- 4 Validation processes of the National Evaluation of Educational Achievements - Aristas: the INEEd experience (Uruguay); Carmen Haretche y Mariano Palamidessi.- 5 Validity and social legitimacy of Simce: the role of evidence and deliberation; Lorena Meckes and María Angélica Mena.- Section II. VALIDITY OF INTERNATIONAL TESTS AND QUESTIONNAIRES.- 6 Comparability of scores: a key component of validity in educational measurement; Jorge González and René Gemmp.- 7 Measurement of factor invariance in large-scale tests; Víctor Pedrero.- 8 Invariance of socioeconomic status scales in international studies; Ernesto Treviño, Andrés Sandoval-Hernández, Daniel Miranda, David Rutkowski and Tyler Matta.- 9 Measurement of attitudes towards gender equality rights in international tests: implications regarding their validity; Juan Carlos Castillo, Daniel Miranda and Angélica Bonilla.- 10 The challenge of adapting PISA for low and middle-low income countries; Catalina Covacevich, Kelly Makowiecki and Tyler Leigh.- 11 Ensuring the validity of international comparisons in the Teaching and Learning International Survey  (TALIS); Pablo Fraser and Fabián Barrera-Pedemonte.- Section III. VALIDITY OF EVALUATIONS FOR SELECTION AND CERTIFICATION PURPOSES.- 12

Jorge Manzi, Doctor of Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, United States and a psychologist at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is currently a full time professor at the School of Psychology of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he also directs the UC MIDE Measurement Center (one of the leading institutions in the field of educational measurement in Latin America). His areas of specialization are educational measurement, social psychology and political psychology.

María Rosa García, Master of Psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Psychologist of the same university. She is currently working at the MIDE UC Measurement Center. She has done consulting and teaching mainly on topics related to the construction and validation of measuring instruments, and the evaluation of learning.

Sandy Taut, Doctor in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles, United States, and Psychologist from the University of Cologne, Germany. Currently she is Deputy Head at Educational Quality Agency, Ministry of Education, State of Bavaria, Germany. She has worked and researched internationally on issues related to educational evaluation, teaching, instructional and school quality, and validation of measurement and evaluation systems.