In educational practice, test results are used for several purposes. However, validity research is especially focused on the validity of summative assessment. This article aimed to provide a general framework for validating formative assessment. The authors applied the argument‐based approach to validation to the context of formative assessment. This resulted in a proposed interpretation and use argument consisting of a score interpretation and a score use. The former involves inferences linking specific task performance to an interpretation of a student's general performance. The latter involves inferences regarding decisions about actions and educational consequences. The validity argument should focus on critical claims regarding score interpretation and score use, since both are critical to the effectiveness of formative assessment. The proposed framework is illustrated by an operational example including a presentation of evidence that can be collected on the basis of the framework.

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嵌入式形成性评估验证的通用框架

在教育实践中，测试结果用于多种目的。但是，有效性研究尤其集中在汇总评估的有效性上。本文旨在为验证形成性评估提供一个通用框架。作者将基于论证的方法应用于形成性评估的验证。这导致了提出的解释和使用参数，包括得分解释和得分使用。前者涉及将特定任务的表现与学生的总体表现的解释联系起来的推论。后者涉及关于行动和教育后果的决策的推论。有效性论点应集中在有关分数解释和分数使用的重要主张上，因为两者对形成性评估的有效性至关重要。