A practical treatment of the purposes, methods and problems of constructing, using and evaluating educational tests. The book is designed for use on introductory testing and measurement courses at undergraduate or graduate level.
This revised edition shows educators how to integrate assessment with teaching and learning and offers new chapters that discuss a variety of assessment and grading techniques.
Educational Tests and Measurements in the Age of Accountability is a core text for use in a first level graduate course in educational measurement and testing. In addition to covering the topics traditionally found in core textbooks for this course, this text also provides coverage of contemporary topics (including national testing programs, international achievement comparisons, the value added assessment of schools and teachers, and the public policy debate on selective admissions vs. affirmative minority enrollment).
In this valuable resource, well-known scholars present a detailed understanding of contemporary theories and practices in the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation, with guidance on how to apply these ideas for the benefit of students and institutions. Bringing together terminology, analytical perspectives, and methodological advances, this second edition facilitates informed decision-making while connecting the latest thinking in these methodological areas with actual practice in higher education. This research handbook provides higher education administrators, student affairs personnel, institutional researchers, and faculty with an integrated volume of theory, method, and application.
Amplify your assessment literacy. Formative, data-driven, high-stakes—we all know the buzzwords surrounding educational testing. But we often shelve our understanding of these because they are overwhelmingly complex. Those who care about our schools and students—teachers, administrators, policymakers, parents, citizens—will discover how and why testing should be taken upon ourselves to advance. Using a nontechnical approach, this book offers fundamental knowledge to free you from testing fogginess—all framed around practical actions you can take to strengthen your assessment literacy. Inappropriate tests are leading to mistaken decisions, and this book provides everything you need to know to change that, including Reasons for tests Reliability/validity Fairness Test-building
Measurement and evaluation is a required subject in all teacher education sources. Its importance as a subject cannot be overemphasized for, with it, the teacher becomes empowered to assess the student's performance and assist them in learning process. We have tried to introduce this subject matter in this book in the simplest possible way in order to ensure that over would-be teachers will get the correct concepts and practices in educational measurement and evaluation. The book consists seven chapters. The first chapter deals with basic concept of educational measurement and evaluations. The second chapter entitled 'taxonomy of educational objectives. The third chapter presents scales of measurement and types of tests. This book also takes a fresh look at accepted assessment concepts and issues, such as validity and reliabilities it presents in chapter four. Chapter five relate with evaluation of teaching learning process. Chapter six contains with statistical concepts essential for understanding the interpretation and discussion of result. using the results of measurement and evaluation including in the last chapter of this book
This encyclopedia is the first major reference guide for students new to the field, covering traditional areas while pointing the way to future developments.