Handbook on Student Development
Handbook on Student Development

Author: Mark E. Ware

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1135832633

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Because this book's main objective is to foster and promote student development, it should appeal to those who advise, counsel, and teach undergraduate and graduate students, particularly those in psychology, education, and other social sciences. Along with a plethora of stimulating ideas for practice and research, the book contains the results of research having immediate applications to students' educational and career direction needs. Readers will find more than 90 articles in this book distributed across three significant challenges to students' development: the academic, occupational, and personal. Further, the material presented has been organized around three distinct approaches to these challenges: advising, career development, and field placement activities. The source for these articles is the official journal, Teaching of Psychology, of Division Two of the American Psychological Association.

The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) as a Predictor of Success at the Naval Postgraduate School
The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) as a Predictor of Success at the Naval Postgraduate School

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Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13:

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The Naval Postgraduate School is conducting a three-year study to de termine whether or not to use the Graduate Record Examination as a selection tool/admissions standard. Students are currently selected based on their professional military performance and their undergraduate grades, math and science exposure. This thesis examines a sample of 198 students who took the Graduate Record Examination after arrival at the school and who have completed six quarters of study. The results indicate that the Graduate Record Examination is a much stronger predictor than the currently used undergraduate measures (Academic Profile Code). When the Graduate Record Examination scores are combined with undergraduate grade point average and the officer's age, an excellent predictor is developed. The thesis contains, in addition to descriptive information and regression results, a prediction equation which may be used by Navy selection committees in determining whether or not an officer will succeed at the Naval Postgraduate School. Thesis. (SDW).

Educational Measurement
Educational Measurement

Author: Robert L. Brennan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-10-03

Total Pages: 804

ISBN-13: 1493082256

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Educational Measurement has been the bible in its field since the first edition was published by ACE in 1951. The importance of this fourth edition of Educational Measurement is to extensively update and extend the topics treated in the previous three editions. As such, the fourth edition documents progress in the field and provides critical guidance to the efforts of new generations of researchers and practitioners. Edited by Robert Brennan and jointly sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the National Council on Measurement in Education, the fourth edition provides in-depth treatments of critical measurement topics, and the chapter authors are acknowledged experts in their respective fields. Educational measurement researchers and practitioners will find this text essential, and those interested in statistics, psychology, business, and economics should also find this work to be of very strong interest. Topics covered are divided into three subject areas: theory and general principles; construction, administration, and scoring; and applications. The first part of the book covers the topics of validation, reliability, item response theory, scaling and norming, linking and equating, test fairness, and cognitive psychology. Part two includes chapters on test development, test administration, performance assessment, setting performance standards, and technology in testing. The final section includes chapters on second language testing, testing for accountability in K-12 schools, standardized assessment of individual achievement in K-12 schools, higher education admissions testing, monitoring educational progress, licensure and certification testing, and legal and ethical issues.

International Encyclopedia of Education
International Encyclopedia of Education

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Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2009-04-17

Total Pages: 6964

ISBN-13: 0080448941

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The field of education has experienced extraordinary technological, societal, and institutional change in recent years, making it one of the most fascinating yet complex fields of study in social science. Unequalled in its combination of authoritative scholarship and comprehensive coverage, International Encyclopedia of Education, Third Edition succeeds two highly successful previous editions (1985, 1994) in aiming to encapsulate research in this vibrant field for the twenty-first century reader. Under development for five years, this work encompasses over 1,000 articles across 24 individual areas of coverage, and is expected to become the dominant resource in the field. Education is a multidisciplinary and international field drawing on a wide range of social sciences and humanities disciplines, and this new edition comprehensively matches this diversity. The diverse background and multidisciplinary subject coverage of the Editorial Board ensure a balanced and objective academic framework, with 1,500 contributors representing over 100 countries, capturing a complete portrait of this evolving field. A totally new work, revamped with a wholly new editorial board, structure and brand-new list of meta-sections and articles Developed by an international panel of editors and authors drawn from senior academia Web-enhanced with supplementary multimedia audio and video files, hotlinked to relevant references and sources for further study Incorporates ca. 1,350 articles, with timely coverage of such topics as technology and learning, demography and social change, globalization, and adult learning, to name a few Offers two content delivery options - print and online - the latter of which provides anytime, anywhere access for multiple users and superior search functionality via ScienceDirect, as well as multimedia content, including audio and video files