Testing Measurement category: 779 books
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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...
Clinician's Guide to Psychological Assessment and Testing
With Forms and Templates for Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
"Overall, this is an excellent guide to the use and administration of psychological tests. It provides straightforward directions and instructions on how to utilize testing in such a way as to better inform clinical practice. I could see this book as a mainstay on any counselorís bookshelf,...
High-Stakes Testing
Coping With Collateral Damage
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing - its goals, methods, and consequences - into the educational limelight. The four-fold purpose of this book is to: describe the nature of high-stakes testing; identify types of collateral damage that have attended the...
by Paula E. Lester, Deborah Inman, Lloyd K. Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The Handbook is intended for all researchers in education and the social sciences─undergraduate students to advanced doctoral students and research faculty.
Part I provides an introduction to basic quantitative research methods, including analysis and interpretation of statistical tests associated...
Kill the Messenger
The War on Standardized Testing
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
In response to public demand, federal legislation now requires testing of most students in the United States in reading and mathematics in grades three through eight. Many educators, parents, and policymakers who have paid little attention to testing policy issues in the past need to have better information...
Testing Too Much?
A Principal's Guide to Cutting Back Testing and Reclaiming Instructional Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Some of it is mandatory, but the vast majority is not, and under the control of districts, schools and even teachers to reduce. Testing Too Much? provides a rationale and set of three models...
by Jean Cardinet, Sandra Johnson, Gianreto Pini
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Intended to help improve measurement and data collection methods in the behavioral, social, and medical sciences, this book demonstrates an expanded and accessible use of Generalizability Theory (G theory). G theory conceptually models the way in which the reliability of measurement is ascertained....
The Ambiguity of Teaching to the Test
Standards, Assessment, and Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
Testing is one of the most controversial of all state and federal educational policies. The effects of testing are quite ambiguous. The same test may lead to different consequences in different circumstances, and teachers may use very different strategies to prepare students for tests. Although most...
by J. Patrick Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
jMetrik is a computer program for implementing classical and modern psychometric methods. It is designed to facilitate work in a production environment and to make advanced psychometric procedures accessible to every measurement practitioner**.** Applied Measurement with jMetrik reviews psychometric...
by Paul Yoder, PhD, Frank Symons
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
"Yoder and Symons bring decades of work to bear and it shows....[The book is] presented with broad scholarship and conceptual depth."
óRoger Bakeman, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Georgia State University
"This outstanding volume transcends the typical treatment of behavior...
All About the CogAT® Test
Crash Course for Cognitive Abilities Test™ for Pre-K to 8th Grade
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
This book tells parents everything they need to know about the CogAT® Test (the Cognitive Abilities Test™). This test is often given to children as part of a Gifted and Talented admissions process. Created by TestingMom.com, the premier online resource to help parents along with their pre-K to 8th...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Under pressure and support from the federal government, states have increasingly turned to indicators based on student test scores to evaluate teachers and schools, as well as students themselves. The focus thus far has been on test scores in those subject areas where there is a sequence of consecutive...
All About the OLSAT® Test
Crash Course for the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test® Pre-K to 8th Grade
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
This book tells parents everything they need to know about the OLSAT® Test (the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test®). This test is often given to children as part of a Gifted and Talented admissions process. This ebook was created by TestingMom.com, the premier online resource to help parents along with...
by Susana Urbina
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
An easy-to-understand overview of the key concepts of psychological testing
Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Essentials of Psychological Testing surveys the basic principles of psychometrics, succinctly presents the information needed to understand and evaluate tests, and introduces...