Kentucky Department of Education

​The validity of any statewide testing program is derived from the sum of its parts, including the uses made of the test results as established by the Kentucky Board of Education.

​KDE has an ongoing program of reliability and validity research conducted annually by one of our contractors, Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO). Founded in 1951, HumRRO has completed over 5,000 contracts encompassing a wide range of research issues. While many of the research papers provided on this page are devoted to validity, and include many references to validity studies, these documents provide much, but not all, of the evidence needed to assess the validity of the program.

 

HumRRO Third Party Studies

KCCT 2009

KCCT 2010

KCCT 2011

 

KCCT Writing Assessments

 

KCCT Alignment to Common Core Standards

KCCT Reading & Math Alignment to Common Core Standards in Grades 3-5

 

EOC QualityCore Estimation of Student Grades