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Defending Standardized Testing
ISBN: 9780805849110 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone invested in the success of American education, from parents to policymakers, are affected by or concerned about educational testing. The education reform movement of the past 15 years has focused on raising academic standards. Some standards advocates attach a testing mechanism to gauge the extent to which high standards are actually accomplished. On the other hand, some critics view the push for standards and testing as precisely what ails American education. They view testing generally as an impediment to reform, an antiquated technology that reflects an antiquated view of...
Everyone invested in the success of American education, from parents to policymakers, are affected by or concerned about educational testing. The educ...
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707,28 |
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Defending Standardized Testing
ISBN: 9780805849127 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone invested in the success of American education, from parents to policymakers, are affected by or concerned about educational testing. The education reform movement of the past 15 years has focused on raising academic standards. Some standards advocates attach a testing mechanism to gauge the extent to which high standards are actually accomplished. On the other hand, some critics view the push for standards and testing as precisely what ails American education. They view testing generally as an impediment to reform, an antiquated technology that reflects an antiquated view of...
Everyone invested in the success of American education, from parents to policymakers, are affected by or concerned about educational testing. The educ...
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Assessing Media Education: A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators
ISBN: 9780805852264 / Angielski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assessing Media Education provides guidelines for media educators and administrators in higher education media programs who are creating or improving student-learning assessment strategies. Covering the topics and categories established by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, this key resource guides readers through the steps of developing an assessment plan, establishing student learning outcomes in the various areas of the curriculum, and measuring those outcomes. This timely and critical volume provides detailed discussion on:...
Assessing Media Education provides guidelines for media educators and administrators in higher education media programs who are creating or imp...
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375,54 |
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High-Stakes Testing : Coping With Collateral Damage
ISBN: 9780805855210 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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: 1) describe the nature of high-stakes testing; 2) identify types of collateral damage that have attended the testing programs; 3) analyze methods different groups of people have chosen for coping with the damage; and 4) suggest lessons to be learned from the high-stakes-testing experience. The six groups of people whose coping strategies are inspected include: a) politicians and their staffs; b)...
The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing (its goals, methods, and consequences) into the educational limelight...
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707,28 |
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High-Stakes Testing: Coping with Collateral Damage
ISBN: 9780805855227 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 testing programs; analyze methods different groups of people have chosen for coping with the damage and suggest lessons to be learned from the high-stakes-testing experience. The six groups of people whose coping strategies are inspected include: politicians and their staffs; educational... The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing - its goals, methods, and consequences - into the educational lime... |
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Automated Scoring of Complex Tasks in Computer-Based Testing
ISBN: 9780805859775 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of computers and the Internet in the testing community has expanded the opportunity for innovative testing. Until now, there was no one source that reviewed the latest methods of automated scoring for complex assessments. This is the first volume to provide that coverage, along with examples of "best practices" in the design, implementation, and evaluation of automated complex assessment. The contributing authors, all noted leaders in the field, introduce each method in the context of actual applications in real assessments so as to provide a realistic view of current industry...
The use of computers and the Internet in the testing community has expanded the opportunity for innovative testing. Until now, there was no one source...
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Assessing Media Education: A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators: Component 1: Measurement
ISBN: 9780805860924 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An abridged version of Assessing media education, 2005.
An abridged version of Assessing media education, 2005.
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Assessing Media Education: A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators: Component 2: Case Studies
ISBN: 9780805860931 / Angielski / Miękka / 97 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An abridged version of Assessing media education, 2005.
An abridged version of Assessing media education, 2005.
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Assessing Media Education : A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators: Component 3: Developing an Assessment Plan
ISBN: 9780805860948 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An abridged version of Assessing media education, 2005.
An abridged version of Assessing media education, 2005.
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Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment
ISBN: 9780805861761 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research. The International Test Commission (ITC) guidelines for test adaptation and conceptual and methodological issues in test adaptation are described in detail, and questions of ethics and concern for validity of test scores in cross-cultural contexts are carefully examined. Advances in test translation and adaptation methodology, including statistical identification of flawed test items, establishing...
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tes...
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A Multidimensional Approach to Achievement Validation: A Special Issue of Educational Assessment
ISBN: 9780805896022 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two of the most interesting conceptual turns in Richard E. Snow's thinking called for: a broadening of the concept of aptitude to include not only cognitive processes, but also affective and cognative processes as essential for understanding academic performance and learning; and an exploration of the possibility that individual differences in learning and achievement emerge from dynamic person-situation transactions that unfold over time. The articles in this special issue address these "big ideas" through the lens of a study of high school students' achievement in science.
Two of the most interesting conceptual turns in Richard E. Snow's thinking called for: a broadening of the concept of aptitude to include not only cog...
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Defending A High School Graduation Test: Gi Forum V. Texas Education Agency. A Special Issue of applied Measurement in Education
ISBN: 9780805897401 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A defence of high school graduation testing. A special issue of Applied Measurement in Education, it discusses the G1 Forum versus the Texas Education Agency case.
A defence of high school graduation testing. A special issue of Applied Measurement in Education, it discusses the G1 Forum versus the Texas Education...
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The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning
ISBN: 9780807742297 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardly a day goes by in America without talk of testing students to higher standards as a means to improve our education system. In The Testing Trap, George Hillocks puts this logic to the test. Through interviews with over three hundred teachers and administrators, Hillocks examines whether state writing tests in Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon, New York, and Texas do what they are supposed to do: Improve education. Ultimately, Hillocks argues that the majority of existing tests actually have a harmful effect on the way students are taught to write. In The Testing Trap, Hillocks demonstrates how...
Hardly a day goes by in America without talk of testing students to higher standards as a means to improve our education system. In The Testing Trap, ...
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Assessing Student Learning in Africa
ISBN: 9780821358498 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education for All, supported by the international community, emphasizes the importance of learning quality. This book focuses on the use of assessment to monitor and evaluate learning in Sub-Saharan African countries. It deals with four major aspects of educational assessment: public (external) examinations, national assessments of educational achievement levels, international assessments, and classroom assessment practices. Coverage of public examinations includes a review of their quality, their potential for leveraging reform, and their positive and negative impacts on the nature of...
Education for All, supported by the international community, emphasizes the importance of learning quality. This book focuses on the use of assessment...
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Assessing National Achievement Levels in Education
ISBN: 9780821372586 / Angielski / Miękka / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As knowledge increasingly replaces raw materials and labor as a key resource in economic development, the availability of human knowledge and skills is critical in determining a country's rate of economic development and its competitiveness in international markets. The growing use of national assessment capacity has enabled ministries of education across the world to describe national levels of learning achievement in key subject areas; compare achievement levels of key subgroups, such as boys and girls, ethnic groups, urban and rural students, and public and private school students; and...
As knowledge increasingly replaces raw materials and labor as a key resource in economic development, the availability of human knowledge and skills i...
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101 Essential Lists on Assessment
ISBN: 9780826488671 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lists range from using positive assessment to increase students self-esteem to explaining various forms of assessment.
Lists range from using positive assessment to increase students self-esteem to explaining various forms of assessment.
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Truth about Testing: An Educator's Call to Action
ISBN: 9780871205230 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With public and political demand for educational accountability never higher, educators are under enormous pressure to raise students' scores on standardized achievement tests. Policymakers are backing large-scale, high-stakes testing programs as the best way to determine which schools are failing and which schools are succeeding, and the only way to ensure the quality of students' schooling. Nonsense, says distinguished educator and author W. James Popham. In The Truth About Testing: An Educator's Call to Action, Popham explores both the absurdity and the... With public and political demand for educational accountability never higher, educators are under enormous pressure to raise students' scores on st... |
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Test Better, Teach Better: The Instructional Role of Assessment
ISBN: 9780871206671 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you're frustrated by standardized tests that don't give you the information you need to help students achieve in the classroom, then here's a book that explains how to create and use tests to guide everyday teaching practices.
A renowned expert on assessment provides you with a "crash course" on the basic principles of testing: How tests can tell you what to teach and how to teach it. What to put on a test and why, including the rules for choosing and writing good test items. The measurement concepts every educator must know in order to design tests that meet tough... If you're frustrated by standardized tests that don't give you the information you need to help students achieve in the classroom, then here's a book ...
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Humanics National Preschool Assessment Handbook: A User's Guide to the Humanics National Child Assessment Form - Ages 3 to 6
ISBN: 9780893340971 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive handbook serves as a checklist of skills and behaviors a child is likely to develop during the ages three to six years. Each item in the checklist is a sample of many related skills and behaviors and acts as an index of more general characteristics of development. Items are grouped into four scales that represent areas of child development: SocialEmotional, Motor Skills, Language, Cognitive and Hygiene/SelfHelp
This comprehensive handbook serves as a checklist of skills and behaviors a child is likely to develop during the ages three to six years. Each item i...
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129,96 |
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Objective Measurement: Theory Into Practice, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780893918439 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second volume in the series that focuses on the International Objective Measurement Workshops and the work of Georg Rasch. In the area of practice, two major clusters of new work are reported in this volume: a national pilot study of computer-adaptive testing in professional licensure and applications of a type of Rasch model called the Facet Model. This is the second volume in the series that focuses on the International Objective Measurement Workshops and the work of Georg Rasch. In the area ... |
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