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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. 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 |