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Theory of Mental Tests
ISBN: 9780805800241 / Angielski / Twarda / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic volume outlines, for both students and professionals, the mathematical theories and equations that are necessary for evaluating a test and for quantifying its characteristics. The author utilizes formulas that evaluate both the reliability and the validity of tests. He also provides the means for evaluating the reliability and validity of total test scores and individual item analysis. The work remains one of the only books on classical test theory to discuss applications, "true score" theory, the effect of test length on reliability and validity, and the effects of univariate...
This classic volume outlines, for both students and professionals, the mathematical theories and equations that are necessary for evaluating a test an...
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Test Validity
ISBN: 9780898599978 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technological and theoretical changes over the past decade have altered the way we think about test validity. This book addresses the present and future concerns raised by these developments. Topics discussed include: * the validity of computerized testing * the validity of testing for specialized populations (e.g., minorities, the handicapped) and * new analytic tools to study and measure validity
Technological and theoretical changes over the past decade have altered the way we think about test validity. This book addresses the present and futu...
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Diagnostic Monitoring of Skill and Knowledge Acquisition
ISBN: 9780898599923 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An adjunct to the increased emphasis on developing students' critical thinking and higher order skills is the need for methods to monitor and evaluate these abilities. These papers provide insight into current techniques and examine possibilities for the future. The contributors to Diagnostic Monitoring of Skill and Knowledge Acquisition focus on two beliefs: that new kinds of tests and assessment methods are needed; and that instruction and learning can be improved by developing new assessment methods based on work in cognitive science.
An adjunct to the increased emphasis on developing students' critical thinking and higher order skills is the need for methods to monitor and evaluate...
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Test Theory for A New Generation of Tests
ISBN: 9780805805932 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The editors of this volume suggest there are missing elements in the conceptualization upon which standard test theory is based. They argue that different models are useful for different purposes and consider a variety of directions in which the theory might be extended.
The editors of this volume suggest there are missing elements in the conceptualization upon which standard test theory is based. They argue that diffe...
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Construction Versus Choice in Cognitive Measurement : Issues in Constructed Response, Performance Testing, and Portfolio Assessment
ISBN: 9780805809640 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together psychometric, cognitive science, policy, and content domain perspectives on new approaches to educational assessment -- in particular, constructed response, performance testing, and portfolio assessment. These new assessment approaches -- a full range of alternatives to traditional multiple-choice tests -- are useful in all types of large-scale testing programs, including educational admissions, school accountability, and placement. This book's multi-disciplinary perspective identifies the potential advantages and pitfalls of these new assessment forms, as well as...
This book brings together psychometric, cognitive science, policy, and content domain perspectives on new approaches to educational assessment -- in p...
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Technology Assessment in Education and Training
ISBN: 9780805812473 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a variety of overall assessments of technology and individual descriptions of work-in-progress. Supported by private funders, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and a variety of other sources, these efforts address education programs focused on specific subject matter such as mathematics or troubleshooting of school-based learning using computers. They also focus on classes of technology such as intelligent systems, distance learning, and hypertext. Taken together, they portray the range of strategies through which we can begin to understand the impact of...
This volume presents a variety of overall assessments of technology and individual descriptions of work-in-progress. Supported by private funders, non...
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Implementing Performance Assessment : Promises, Problems, and Challenges
ISBN: 9780805821314 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a comprehensive account of issues pertaining to performance assessments. The papers explicate the central issues regarding the development, implementation, and utility of performance assessments.
This volume provides a comprehensive account of issues pertaining to performance assessments. The papers explicate the central issues regarding the de...
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Setting Consensus Goals for Academic Achievement: A Special Issue of Applied Measurement in Education
ISBN: 9780805898507 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This special issue is based on a workshop which began with a description and examination of the current National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) standard-setting model, then looked to standard-setting applications outside of education. These applications included those that focus on human performance and the adequacy of human performance; in these contexts, raters were asked to focus on the knowledge and skills that underlie competent performance. Researchers also examined applications that focus on the impact of environmental agents on life and the ecology; in these cases, raters...
This special issue is based on a workshop which began with a description and examination of the current National Assessment of Educational Progress (N...
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Principles and Practices of Performance Assessment
ISBN: 9780805829716 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the recent national trend toward adoption of performance assessments. Embraced at all levels of educational decision-making--state, district, school, and teacher--the shapes these assessments take and the affects they have at the classroom level can differ significantly from one setting to another.
Based on case studies of 16 schools, this study describes what performance assessments actually look like--the types of tasks they pose to children, the scoring methods used, the purposes to which they are put, and how they fit in with other components of assessment... This volume explores the recent national trend toward adoption of performance assessments. Embraced at all levels of educational decision-making--stat...
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Principles and Practices of Performance Assessment
ISBN: 9780805829709 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the recent national trend toward adoption of performance assessments. Embraced at all levels of educational decision-making--state, district, school, and teacher--the shapes these assessments take and the affects they have at the classroom level can differ significantly from one setting to another.
Based on case studies of 16 schools, this study describes what performance assessments actually look like--the types of tasks they pose to children, the scoring methods used, the purposes to which they are put, and how they fit in with other components of assessment... This volume explores the recent national trend toward adoption of performance assessments. Embraced at all levels of educational decision-making--stat...
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Cheating on Tests : How To Do It, Detect It, and Prevent It
ISBN: 9780805831443 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive look at the pervasive and weighty problem of cheating on tests. It should appeal to all serious stakeholders in educational systems, from parents and school board members to professionals in schools and the testing industry.
A comprehensive look at the pervasive and weighty problem of cheating on tests. It should appeal to all serious stakeholders in educational systems, f...
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Advances in Computerized Scoring of Complex Item Formats: A Special Issue of Applied Measurement in Education
ISBN: 9780805896206 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This special issue of Applied Measurement in Education contains essays on technological innovations in large-scale assessment; data from complex assessments and strategies for validating computer automated scoring.
This special issue of Applied Measurement in Education contains essays on technological innovations in large-scale assessment; data from complex asses...
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Vertically Moderated Standard Setting: A Special Issue of Applied Measurement in Education
ISBN: 9780805894882 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Testing
ISBN: 9780805801170 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume consists of a series of essays written by experts, most of whom participated in a conference conducted by the Educational Testing Service to explore how current fields of artificial intelligence might contribute to ETS's plans to automate one or more of its testing activities. The papers presented in Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Testing touch on a variety of topics including mathematics tutors, graph comprehension and computer vision, student reasoning and human accessing, modeling software design within a general problem-space architecture, memory organization and...
This volume consists of a series of essays written by experts, most of whom participated in a conference conducted by the Educational Testing Service ...
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Usability Evaluation: A Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
ISBN: 9780805896756 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 14, Number 1, 2002. Contents: J.R. Lewis, Introduction. ARTICLES: D.J. Gillan, R.G. Bias, Usability Science 1: Foundation. H.R. Hartson, T.S. Andre, R.C. Williges, Criteria for Evaluating Usability Evaluation Methods. R.E. Cordes, Task Selection Bias: A Case for User-Defined Tasks. M. Hertzum, N.E. Jacobsen, The Evaluator Effect: A Chilling Fact About Usability Evaluation Methods. J.R. Lewis, Evaluation of Procedures for Adjusting Problem-Discovery Rates Estimated From Small Samples. M. Hassenzahl, The Effect of...
Volume 14, Number 1, 2002. Contents: J.R. Lewis, Introduction. ARTICLES: D.J. Gillan, R.G. Bias, Usability Science 1...
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A Study of the Relationship Between School Culture and Standardized Test Scores
ISBN: 9781599426730 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this quantitative study was to discover the perceptions of school culture and correlate those perceptions with standardized test scores in elementary and secondary schools in southwestern Arizona. The intention of this study was to contribute to the field of education leadership related to student achievement and factors contributing to student achievement including organizational culture. A survey of teachers and administrators in participating schools in southwestern Arizona was completed and correlated with existing student achievement data for those participating schools....
The purpose of this quantitative study was to discover the perceptions of school culture and correlate those perceptions with standardized test scores...
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developing tests and questionnaires for a national assessment of educational achievement
ISBN: 9780821374979 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Developing Tests and Questionnaires for a National Assessment of Educational Achievement' is the second in the 'National Assessments of Educational Achievement' series. It is designed to help build capacity in carrying out technically adequate assessments of national levels of student achievement. It introduces readers to the activities involved in the development of achievement tests, and includes developing an assessment framework, writing multiple choice and constructed response type items, pretesting, producing test booklets, and handscoring items. A section on questionnaire construction...
'Developing Tests and Questionnaires for a National Assessment of Educational Achievement' is the second in the 'National Assessments of Educational A...
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Practical Solutions for Serious Problems in Standards-Based Grading
ISBN: 9781412967242 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume discusses critical issues in implementing accurate, equitable grading policies for diverse student populations in a standards-based environment and offers research-based solutions.
This edited volume discusses critical issues in implementing accurate, equitable grading policies for diverse student populations in a standards-based...
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Assessing Student Achievement: A Guide for Teachers and Administrators
ISBN: 9781578868100 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressed to in-service and pre-service teachers and administrators, this book reorders educational priorities, emphasizing the relation of what is taught to what is tested, educationally sound and effective preparation for assessments, exploring alternatives to paper and pencil tests, the appropriate interpretation and use of test results, communicating the meaning of assessment results to parents and communities, and using program evaluation to improve learning.
Addressed to in-service and pre-service teachers and administrators, this book reorders educational priorities, emphasizing the relation of what is ta...
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Cognitive Assessment: An Introduction to the Rule Space Method
ISBN: 9780805828283 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces a new methodology for the analysis of test results. Free from ambiguous interpretations, the results truly demonstrate an individual's progress. The methodology is ideal for highlighting patterns derived from test scores used in evaluating progress. Dr. Tatsuoka introduces readers to the Rule Space Method (RSM), a technique that transforms unobservable knowledge and skill variables into observable and measurable attributes. RSM converts item response patterns into attribute mastery probabilities. RSM is the only up-to-date methodology that can handle large scale... This book introduces a new methodology for the analysis of test results. Free from ambiguous interpretations, the results truly demonstrate an indi... |
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