Validity of High Stakes Standardized Test Requirements for Homeschoolers: A Psychometric Analysis

The issue of high stakes testing occupies a large portion of today’s educational policy discussions. Public and private debates about testing policies are animated and multi-faceted. One very small facet of the topic, however, rarely emerges into public view. In this chapter, I refer to those policies that require the use of standardized tests as a high stakes assessment of home education. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.