Testing Measurement category: 779 books
Psychological Testing
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Psychological tests are everywhere. They are widely used by practitioners, researchers, clinicians, and educators -anyone, in fact, who needs to measure various aspects of personality, cognitive abilities, mood and suchlike. Psychometrics is the science of psychological assessment. It covers the construction,...
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,...
Invariant Measurement
Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This introductory text describes the principles of invariant measurement, how invariant measurement can be achieved with Rasch models, and how to use invariant measurement to solve measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Rasch models are used throughout but a comparison...
Constructing Measures
An Item Response Modeling Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments, how to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones. The book is organized around the steps taken while constructing an instrument....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The goal of this book is to emphasize the formal statistical features of the practice of equating, linking, and scaling. The book encourages the view and discusses the quality of the equating results from the statistical perspective (new models, robustness, fit, testing hypotheses, statistical monitoring)...
Psychological and Social Measurement
The Career and Contributions of Benjamin D. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In this tribute to Benjamin Wright, former students and colleagues recall the foundational contributions he made to the theory and practice of measurement in a career spanning over five decades. Wright is recognized as the foremost proponent of the psychometric approach of Georg Rasch, a Danish mathematician,...
Filling in The Blanks
Standardized Testing and the BlackWhite Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Filling in the Blanks is a book dedicated to helping policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers, better understand standardized testing and the BlackWhite achievement gap. This book provides a wealth of background information, as well as the most recent findings, about testing and measurement...
Applying the Rasch Model
Fundamental Measurement in the Human Sciences, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Cited over 1900 times, this classic text facilitates a deep understanding of the Rasch model. The authors review the crucial properties of the model and demonstrate its use with a variety of examples from education, psychology, and health. A glossary and numerous illustrations aid the reader's understanding....
The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing
How They Affect Students, Their Parents, Teachers, Principals, Schools, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
As a nation, we spend more than 1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year. The country spends an additional 1.2 billion on test preparation materials designed to help students pass these tests. While test mandates were put in place with good...
Invariant Measurement with Raters and Rating Scales
Rasch Models for Rater-Mediated Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The purpose of this book is to present methods for developing, evaluating and maintaining rater-mediated assessment systems. Rater-mediated assessments involve ratings that are assigned by raters to persons responding to constructed-response items (e.g., written essays and teacher portfolios) and...
by Paul J. Yoder, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This book is a comprehensive textbook designed to introduce graduate students to research methods and techniques
used in observational measurement of behavior, along with the theoretical principles underlying these methods and
techniques. The aspects of observational measurement addressed are highly...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
The subject of accountability warrants thoughtful and dispassionate attention in today's educational environment. The accountability and school reform policies that are put in place today will have wide-ranging and long-lasting consequences for all of the nation's learners. This volume stems from the 2003 Educational Testing Service Invitational Co
by Gail M. Jones, Brett D. Jones, Tracy Hargrove
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
To better understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book takes an in-depth look at the myriad consequences that high-stakes tests hold for students, teachers, administrators, and the public. By focusing on these tests and spending large amounts of time on...
Testwise
Understanding Educational Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Testwise: Understanding Educational Assessment offers a 360-degree guided tour of its subject. Both volumes in this comprehensive two-volume set explore different aspects of investigating what students have learned. To set the scene, Volume One highlights recurrent themes and the contemporary context....