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Rigorous Test Development
About RTD
What is RTD?
RTD Central Tenet/Mantra
Item Validity
RTD Core Principles
RTD Theory of the Item
RTD's Small Theory of Evidence
RTD History
Principals
All Downloads
Contact
Search this Site
RTD Tools & Packets
RTD Core Principles
RTD Pillar Practices
RTD Process Packets
Fairness
Item Logic
Item Review
Item Alignment Examination
Content & Cognition Traits
Radical Empathy
Review Panels
Stimuli
Task Models
The Checklist
About Standardized Assessment
What is a Standardized Test?
Why Do We Need Standardized Tests?
The Importance of Purpose
What Standardized Tests Ain't Good For
How Standardized Tests Are Made
Assessment Explanations
Alignment & Validity
The Platinum Standard
Item Types
Cognitive Complexity
Construct Isolation and Authenticity
Evidence Centered Design
RTD Glossary
RTD's ECD Glossary
Assessment Glossary
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What is RTD?
RTD Central Tenet/Mantra
Item Validity
RTD Core Principles
RTD Theory of the Item
RTD's Small Theory of Evidence
RTD History
Principals
All Downloads
Contact
Search this Site
Folder: RTD Tools & Packets
Back
RTD Core Principles
RTD Pillar Practices
RTD Process Packets
Fairness
Item Logic
Item Review
Item Alignment Examination
Content & Cognition Traits
Radical Empathy
Review Panels
Stimuli
Task Models
The Checklist
Folder: About Standardized Assessment
Back
What is a Standardized Test?
Why Do We Need Standardized Tests?
The Importance of Purpose
What Standardized Tests Ain't Good For
How Standardized Tests Are Made
Folder: Assessment Explanations
Back
Alignment & Validity
The Platinum Standard
Item Types
Cognitive Complexity
Construct Isolation and Authenticity
Evidence Centered Design
RTD Glossary
RTD's ECD Glossary
Assessment Glossary

NERA 2024 Black Box Workshop

Downloads

Item Hygiene Packet

Content & Cognition Traits Handout

What is Radical Empathy?

Radical Empathy Sample Personas

Expertise, Confidence and Humility

Three Expertises

Item Alignment Examination 

Item Delicacy Sets

RTD Cheat Sheet

Powerpoint Downloads

  • Hour 1

  • Hour 2

  • Hour 3

Sample Cycle Map Packet

RTD New Core Principles & Pillar Practices (AERA paper)

The Rigorous Test Development Project

The RTD (Rigorous Test Development) project is an attempt to build a professionalized content development practice that focuses on individual item quality, particularly by leaning into the importance of validity throughout the content development process. It assumes that content development professionals develop professional judgment that can be raised, honed and calibrated by providing frameworks and clarifying expectations in ways that account for the constraints and demands of typical practice within test development, today.

The RTD logo (to the right) is of a fox emerging from a black box. We use a black box because the field of educational measurment has treated content development work as a black box that it has no interest in looking inside. We use a fox because item development requires diving into detail and ambiguity with a variety of tools, rather than just using a single tool or lens—mantra notwithstanding.

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