Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Testing & Measurement

The "Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment" is the first book to explore assessment issues and opportunities occurring due to the real world of human, cultural, historical, and societal influences upon assessment practices, policies, and statistical modeling. With chapters written by experts in the field, this book engages with numerous forms of assessment: from classroom-level formative assessment practices to national accountability and international comparative testing practices all of which are significantly influenced by social and cultural conditions. A unique and...

These convenient Practice Kits include the materials needed for training and practice sessions with the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills(TM) (TILLS(TM)), a test valid and reliable for assessing oral and written language skills in students ages 6 --18 years. The TILLS(TM) Practice Kit gives you and your trainees access to essential materials for learning about TILLS and, in the process, about standardized testing in general.

The TILLS Practice Kits are ideal for use in preservice higher education courses and inservice trainings. They can help you introduce TILLS...

Making mistakes is a critical part of the assessment process--and understanding how to learn from those mistakes helps educators and students get the most from their learning experience. In this practical volume, James McMillan shows why being wrong is an essential part of effective learning and how it can be used by teachers to motivate students and help develop positive achievement-related dispositions. In six concise chapters, the author looks at how mistakes affect students morale, identity, and knowledge, and how teachers can most effectively contextualize supposed failures to help...

Making mistakes is a critical part of the assessment process--and understanding how to learn from those mistakes helps educators and students get the most from their learning experience. In this practical volume, James McMillan shows why being wrong is an essential part of effective learning and how it can be used by teachers to motivate students and help develop positive achievement-related dispositions. In six concise chapters, the author looks at how mistakes affect students morale, identity, and knowledge, and how teachers can most effectively contextualize supposed failures to help...

These conference proceedings focus on Assessment for Learning: Within and Beyond the Classroom in recognition of the power of assessment for learning as a way of boosting student performance. They explore the breadth, depth and quality of the best models and practices, strategies, lessons learnt and discuss cases of successful implementation of assessment within the classroom and beyond, including the virtual space. They also provide fertile ground for stimulating and comparing responsive assessment approaches and practices in relatively new areas of assessment such as graduate capability...

Measurement and Statistics for Teachers deftly combines descriptive statistics and measurement in the classroom into a student-friendly, practical volume. Based on a course taught by the author for the past 25 years, this book offers to undergraduate education students a clear account of the basic issues in measurement and details best practices for administering performance assessments, interpreting test scores, and evaluating student writing. This second edition includes updated pedagogical features, timely discussions of student assessment, and state standards (including NCLB),...

Measurement and Statistics for Teachers deftly combines descriptive statistics and measurement in the classroom into a student-friendly, practical volume. Based on a course taught by the author for the past 25 years, this book offers to undergraduate education students a clear account of the basic issues in measurement and details best practices for administering performance assessments, interpreting test scores, and evaluating student writing. This second edition includes updated pedagogical features, timely discussions of student assessment, state standards (including NCLB), and...

Get the WorkKeys study guide you need to get the job you want. Thousands of employers use the WorkKeys exam to screen job applicants, and people with low scores have little chance of being hired. WorkKeys Secrets is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to do well on this crucial exam. It provides the information, strategies, and practice questions you need for success on WorkKeys. You'll get a comprehensive guide to the three core WorkKeys subjects: Applied Mathematics, Locating Information, and Reading for Information, and a practice test for each subject. Each practice test...

This book brings together internationally recognised scholars with an interest in how to use the power of assessment to improve student learning and to engage with accountability priorities at both national and global levels. It includes distinguished writers who have worked together for some two decades to shift the assessment paradigm from a dominant focus on assessment as measurement towards assessment as central to efforts to improve learning. These writers have worked with the teaching profession and, in so doing, have researched and generated key insights into different ways of...

This publication focuses on competency orientation in higher education, illustrating international assessment practices for measuring student learning outcomes. For Germany, the Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs) research program contributes exemplary approaches, and solutions to current challenges in higher education. KoKoHs models and tests can be used for entrance examination, formative and summative assessment of domain-specific and generic competencies and as a basis for developing new teaching-and-learning tools and formats promoting these...

When it comes to the hotly disputed topic of college admissions, the one thing everyone agrees about is that it's unfair. But there is little agreement on what a fair process would be.

Rebecca Zwick takes a hard look at the high-stakes competition of U.S. college admissions today. Illustrating her points using analyses of survey data from applicants to the nation's top colleges and universities, she assesses the goals of different admissions systems and the fairness of criteria--from high school grades and standardized test scores to race, socioeconomic status, and students' academic...