SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium Psychometric Services
solicit proposals from organizations (hereafter referenced as the "VENDOR") interested in participating in the CONSORTIUM's grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top Assessment Program (Exhibit G). The CONSORTIUM is a collaborative of states mutually aligned to generating the assessment tools and instructional resources that affiliated states can access as part of the federal government's and each member state's education reform efforts. The purpose of this RFP is to select a psychometric services partner that will support the objectives of the CONSORTIUM and will provide quality psychometric services including the following tasks:
Determine Linking and Equating Design for Fixed Forms
Develop Technical Manuals
Determine Standard-Setting Design and collect data for it
Determine Vertical Scale Design and collect data for it
Select Items and Tasks for Pilot Test Forms
Develop Pilot Test Item and Task Data Review Materials
Conduct Psychometric Analysis to Support Pilot Test Data Review
Conduct Analysis of Pilot Test
Select Anchor Items and Tasks for Calibration and Building the Vertical Scale
Final Field Test Forms Verification
Conduct Psychometric Analysis to Support Field Test Data Review
Present as necessary to help derive consensus among TAC members
