In the first of a series of no fewer than 26 white papers on performance testing, Wallace Judd, Ph.D., provides guidance on defining the scope of a performance test before embarking on test construction and marketing. The paper is titled, “Guidance on Scope and Sample Scope Statements.”
The scope statement for a performance test focuses on the skills to be exhibited and evaluated; it assumes that the appropriate knowledge is a prerequisite for performance. The knowledge may be evaluated explicitly, or it may be assumed from competence performance.
The papers in this series are intended to be a resource for test developers, illustrating best practices in the performance-testing industry. They provide advice on performance testing topics from initial concept to test delivery.
These topics are presented in language that does not assume study in psychometrics.
The mathematics of any topics are expressed in abbreviated terms instead of the Greek alphabet, and all computations are illustrated in Excel examples.
The papers are published by Authentic Testing, leaders in the field of performance testing, in the hope that they will expand access to performance testing to a wider audience of practitioners, inspiring them to explore the possibilities inherent in performance testing.