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Testing Guidelines and Resources

Code of fair testing practices in education

http://www.apa.org/science/fairtestcode.html

The Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education is a guide for professionals in fulfilling their obligation to provide and use tests that are fair to all test takers regardless of personal characteristics such as age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or linguistic background.

Standards for educational and psychological testing

http://www.apa.org/science/standards.html

Revised significantly from the 1985 version, the new Standards reflects changes in federal law and measurement trends affecting validity; testing individuals with disabilities or different linguistic backgrounds; and new types of tests as well as new uses of existing tests. The Standards is written for the professional and for the educated layperson and addresses professional and technical issues of test development and use in education, psychology, and employment.

ITC guidelines on adapting tests

http://www.intestcom.org/itc_projects.htm

These detailed set of guidelines should be consulted when adapting psychological and educational tests for use in various different linguistic and cultural contexts (Van de Vijver & Hambleton, 1996). This is an area of major importance as tests become used in more and more countries, and as tests developed in one country get translated or adapted for use in another.
Adaptation needs to consider the whole cultural context within which a test is to be used. Indeed, the adaptation guidelines apply wherever tests are moved from one cultural setting to another - regardless of whether there is a need for translation.

ITC guidelines on computer-based and internet-delivered testing

http://www.intestcom.org/guidelines/index.html

The International Test Commission formally adopted the guidelines at its July 2005 meeting in Granada, Spain