Testing category: 779 books
Automated Essay Scoring
A Cross-disciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
This new volume is the first to focus entirely on automated essay scoring and evaluation. It is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution and state-of-the-art of automated essay scoring and evaluation technology across several disciplines, including education, testing and measurement,...
Large-scale Assessment Programs for All Students
Validity, Technical Adequacy, and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The need for a comprehensive volume that reviews both the processes and issues involved in developing, administering, and validating large-scale assessment programs has never been greater. These programs are used for many purposes, including instructional program evaluation, promotion, certification,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ingrained for many years in the science of educational assessment were a large number of "truths" about how to make sense out of testing results, artful wisdoms that appear to have held away largely by force of habit alone. Practitioners and researchers only occasionally agreed about how...
Thinking Beyond the Test
Strategies for Re-Introducing Higher-Level Thinking Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
This comprehensive Handbook focuses on the most used polytomous item response theory (IRT) models. These models help us understand the interaction between examinees and test questions where the questions have various response categories. The book reviews all of the major models and includes discussions...
Using Drawings in Clinical Practice
Enhancing Intake Interviews and Psychological Testing
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Clinicians are always in need of enticing techniques to engage clients on a daily basis, especially those who are nonverbal or initially opposed to feedback. Using Drawings in Clinical Practice provides a rich variety of drawing directives to enhance the diagnostic process. In this highly illustrated...
by Roger E. Millsap
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This book reviews the statistical procedures used to detect measurement bias. Measurement bias is examined from a general latent variable perspective so as to accommodate different forms of testing in a variety of contexts including cognitive or clinical variables, attitudes, personality dimensions,...
by Hoi K. Suen
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Based on a tremendous increase in the development of psychometric theories in the past decade -- ranging from techniques for criterion-referenced testing to behavioral assessment, generalizability, and item response theory -- this book offers a summary of core issues. In so doing, it provides a comprehensive...
by Rona F. Flippo
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Improve students' test-taking success by teaching effective time management strategies, organizational skills, note-taking techniques, ways to handle test anxiety, and methods for taking essay and objective tests.
Handbook of Item Response Theory Modeling
Applications to Typical Performance Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Item response theory (IRT) has moved beyond the confines of educational measurement into assessment domains such as personality, psychopathology, and patient-reported outcomes. Classic and emerging IRT methods and applications that are revolutionizing psychological measurement, particularly for health...
by Pier Paolo Cavagna
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Test e Scienze dell’Educazione. Un rapporto travagliato, spesso contraddistinto da posizioni estreme. Oscillanti tra coloro i quali rifiutano aprioristicamente ogni ipotesi di uso, a coloro che nutrono un timore reverenziale per la tematica, passando per chi non ne conosce nemmeno l’esistenza...
by Ramazan Gençay, Faruk Selçuk, Brandon J. Whitcher
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2001
An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics presents a unified view of filtering techniques with a special focus on wavelet analysis in finance and economics. It emphasizes the methods and explanations of the theory that underlies them. It also concentrates on...
How to Master Psychometric Tests
Expert Advice on Test Preparation with Practice Questions from Leading Test Providers
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Psychometric tests are used by the majority of medium to large-sized organizations to assess the abilities of clerical, technical, graduate and executive job candidates. There is also an increasing trend for universities to use them as part of their admissions procedure.
This best-selling guide...
How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests
Over 500 Practice Questions
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Containing the largest bank of test questions on the market, How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests provides advice, practice and exercises to help you prepare for the rigorous tests used by employers, helping you to build up speed, accuracy and confidence. Testing expert Mike Bryon offers...