Testing Measurement category: 779 books
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...
Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement
Analyzing and Evaluating Rater-Mediated Assessments- 2 nd Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Since the early days of performance assessment, human ratings have been subject to various forms of error and bias. Expert raters often come up with different ratings for the very same performance and it seems that assessment outcomes largely depend upon which raters happen to assign the rating. This...
Methodological Problems with the Academic Sources of Popular Psychology
Context, Inference, and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Methodological Problems with the Academic Sources of Popular Psychology: Context, Inference, and Measurementexamines the relationship between academic and popular psychology from a critical perspective with a focus on issues of methodology. The monograph traces the path from ideas in reputable popular...
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,...
by Denise Fleith, Maria Bruno-Faria, Eunice Alencar
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Theory and Practice of Creativity Measurement explores important and fascinating topics related to the assessment of creativity. An introductory chapter provides an overview of numerous measures to assess the multiple dimensions of creativity and addresses the parameters to be considered when evaluating...
Preparing Students for College and Careers
Theory, Measurement, and Educational Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Preparing Students for College and Careers addresses measurement and research issues related to college and career readiness. Educational reform efforts across the United States have increasingly taken aim at measuring and improving postsecondary readiness. These initiatives include developing new...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Contributors to the volume represent an international "who's who" of research scientists from the fields of psychology and measurement. It offers the insights of these leading authorities regarding cognition and personality. In particular, they address the roles of constructs and values...
A Compendium of Psychosocial Measures
Assessment of People with Serious Mental Illness in the Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
"Dale Johnson brings a rare and unique assortment of skills to this enterprise. . . .he has personally been immersed in the world of severe mental illness for many yearsÖand adds a compendium of appropriate tools for the research community."
--Harriet P. Lefley, PhD
University of...
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...
Principals of Modern Psychological Measurement
A Festschrift for Frederic M. Lord
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Published in 1983, Principals of Modern Psychological Measurement is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.