Testing category: 779 books
The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing
How They Affect Students, Their Parents, Teachers, Principals, Schools, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
As a nation, we spend more than 1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year. The country spends an additional 1.2 billion on test preparation materials designed to help students pass these tests. While test mandates were put in place with good...
Clinician's Guide to Psychological Assessment and Testing
With Forms and Templates for Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
"Overall, this is an excellent guide to the use and administration of psychological tests. It provides straightforward directions and instructions on how to utilize testing in such a way as to better inform clinical practice. I could see this book as a mainstay on any counselorís bookshelf,...
by Gail M. Jones, Brett D. Jones, Tracy Hargrove
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
To better understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book takes an in-depth look at the myriad consequences that high-stakes tests hold for students, teachers, administrators, and the public. By focusing on these tests and spending large amounts of time on...
High-Stakes Testing
Coping With Collateral Damage
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals. As such, the incentive to cheat is high. This Handbook is the first to offer insights from experts within the testing community, psychometricians, and policymakers to identify and develop best practice guidelines for...
Kill the Messenger
The War on Standardized Testing
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
In response to public demand, federal legislation now requires testing of most students in the United States in reading and mathematics in grades three through eight. Many educators, parents, and policymakers who have paid little attention to testing policy issues in the past need to have better information...
Testing Too Much?
A Principal's Guide to Cutting Back Testing and Reclaiming Instructional Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Some of it is mandatory, but the vast majority is not, and under the control of districts, schools and even teachers to reduce. Testing Too Much? provides a rationale and set of three models...
The Ambiguity of Teaching to the Test
Standards, Assessment, and Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
Testing is one of the most controversial of all state and federal educational policies. The effects of testing are quite ambiguous. The same test may lead to different consequences in different circumstances, and teachers may use very different strategies to prepare students for tests. Although most...
All About the CogAT® Test
Crash Course for Cognitive Abilities Test™ for Pre-K to 8th Grade
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
This book tells parents everything they need to know about the CogAT® Test (the Cognitive Abilities Test™). This test is often given to children as part of a Gifted and Talented admissions process. Created by TestingMom.com, the premier online resource to help parents along with their pre-K to 8th...
All About the OLSAT® Test
Crash Course for the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test® Pre-K to 8th Grade
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
This book tells parents everything they need to know about the OLSAT® Test (the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test®). This test is often given to children as part of a Gifted and Talented admissions process. This ebook was created by TestingMom.com, the premier online resource to help parents along with...
by Susana Urbina
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
An easy-to-understand overview of the key concepts of psychological testing
Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Essentials of Psychological Testing surveys the basic principles of psychometrics, succinctly presents the information needed to understand and evaluate tests, and introduces...
Technology and Testing
Improving Educational and Psychological Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
From early answer sheets filled in with number 2 pencils, to tests administered by mainframe computers, to assessments wholly constructed by computers, it is clear that technology is changing the field of educational and psychological measurement. The numerous and rapid advances have immediate impact...
High-Stakes Schooling
What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we...
The Testing Charade
Pretending to Make Schools Better
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
For decades we’ve been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there’s still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that schools need to be held accountable—we need...