Testing category: 779 books
Measurement Theory in Action
Case Studies and Exercises, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book helps readers apply testing and measurement theories. Featuring 22 self-standing modules, instructors can pick and choose the ones that are most appropriate for their course. Each module features an overview of a measurement issue and a step-by-step application of that theory. Best practices...
by Jim Horn, Denise Wilburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
With new student assessments and teacher evaluation schemes in the planning or early implementation phases, this book takes a step back to examine the ideological and historical grounding, potential benefits, scholarly evidence, and ethical basis for the new generation of test based accountability measures....
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Testing Your IQ
The Smart Way to Measure Your Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
An enjoyable and entertaining way to measure brainpower.
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Self-Testing Your IQ provides readers with tests that can be used to estimate a realistic IQ score, as well as games, puzzles, and more for an engaging and exciting workout for the mind. Using an amusement-based...
Classroom Testing and Assessment for ALL Students
Beyond Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Use teacher-made tests, appropriate testing accommodations, technology-based testing, and classroom-based assessments to give students with diverse needs the opportunity to achieve!
by Thomas A. Stetz, Robert L. Lovler, Leslie A. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Student Study Guide for Foundations of Psychological Testing has 15 chapters corresponding to those in the main textbook and follows a consistent structure for quick and easy access to key information. To help students understand and apply material related to psychological testing, authors Thomas...
High Stakes
Poverty, Testing, and Failure in American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
High Stakes brings the voices of students and teachers to our national debates over school accountability and educational reform. Recounting the experiences of two classrooms during one academic year, the book offers a critical exploration of excessive state-mandated monitoring, high-stakes testing...
Revisiting Dewey
Best Practices for Educating the Whole Child Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, high-stakes testing has become a ubiquitous feature of public school children's daily rituals. Reform advocates argue that testing leads to greater alignment of the curriculum with teaching and learning, teacher and student accountability,...
From Testing to Productive Student Learning
Implementing Formative Assessment in Confucian-Heritage Settings
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions....
Improving Testing
Process Tools and Techniques to Assure Quality
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate how proven quality assurance tools and methods that have been applied successfully in the manufacturing and service industries for the past 20 years can be applied in the testing industry. It defines what is meant by the term "quality"...
by Carl Whithaus
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2005
This book takes on a daunting task: How do writing teachers continue to work toward preparing students for academic and real-world communication situations, while faced with the increasing use of standardized high-stakes testing? Teachers need both the technical ability to deal with this reality and...
by Holmes Finch, Brian F. French, Jason C. Immekus
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The book will be designed primarily for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) who are learning psychometrics, as well as professionals in the field who need a reference for use in their practice. We would assume that users have some basic knowledge of using SPSS to read data and conduct basic...
by Roger C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
To hear politicians talk, one would think the entire purpose of school is to assess children rather than educate them. Excitement about learning doesn't seem to be on anyone's agenda. The villains are those who profit from testing mania, make the tests, coach for testing, publish the books on which...
Student Workbook To Accompany Miller and Lovler’s Foundations of Psychological Testing
Practical and Critical Thinking Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
The Student Workbook To Accompany Miller and Lovler’s Foundations of Psychological Testing: Practical and Critical Thinking Exercises, Sixth Edition by Aimee Rhoads, Sara Pemble, Leslie Anne Miller, and Robert Louis Lovler is practical workbook that offers a wealth of opportunities for students...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Neuropsychological assessments are now widely used to identify learning disabilities and shape educational interventions. However, many special education teachers, speech therapists, lawyers, pediatricians, psychiatrists, rehabilitation counselors, and a host of other "helping" professions...