Testing category: 779 books
50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools
The Real Crisis in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive...
The Advanced Numeracy Test Workbook: Review Key Quantative Operations and Practise for Accounting and Business Tests
Review Key Quantative Operations and Practise for Accounting and Business Tests
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
The Advanced Numeracy Test Workbook provides essential preparation for graduates and managers who face difficult numerical psychometric tests. Packed with plenty of expert tips, and putting the emphasis firmly on acquiring the necessary key skills, no other book provides this level of support. A companion...
Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services -- Executive Summary
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBASs' effectiveness at achieving their performance goals. This document explores the design...
Gifts Differing
Understanding Personality Type
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
THE BELOVED CLASSIC FOR UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY TYPE.
Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine...
Assessment 3.0
Throw Out Your Grade Book and Inspire Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Throw out gradebooks and meet the assessment system of the future!
Mark Barnes’s formula for feedback, titled SE2R (Summarize, Explain, Redirect, Resubmit), has delivered stunning results to the forward-thinking schools that have tried it. The method in this book will loosen and then break...
Automatic Item Generation
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Automatic item generation (AIG) represents a relatively new and unique research area where specific cognitive and psychometric theories are applied to test construction practices for the purpose of producing test items using technology. The purpose of this book is to bring researchers and practitioners...
Reading for Understanding
Toward an R&D Program in Reading Comprehension
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2002
In fall 1999, the Department of Education's Office of Educational Researchand Improvement (OERI) asked RAND to examine how OERI might improve thequality and relevance of the education research it funds. The RAND ReadingStudy Group (RRSG) was charged with developing a research framework toaddress the...
by Esther Chen
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Practise your mathematics. Grade 7 Mathematics with three short papers. Having difficulty finding practise papers? Look no further! Complete with answer scheme.
Assessment
What's In It For Schools?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years. This book gathers together the latest thinking and looks at how assessment can be used to promote or inhibit learning. Unlike other books on the market, this one summarizes theory and shows how it can...
IQ and Aptitude Tests: Assess Your Verbal Numerical and Spatial Reasoning Skills
Assess Your Verbal Numerical and Spatial Reasoning Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
An aptitude test is designed to measure the potential for achievement in an individual, whilst an IQ test is a standardized test designed to measure intelligence. Both are now increasingly encountered in recruitment, selection and assessment procedures. IQ and Aptitude Tests contains over 350 practice...
Developing Portfolios for Authentic Assessment, PreK-3
Guiding Potential in Young Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Written for early childhood educators, this guide provides rubrics, samples, reproducibles, and easy-to-understand procedures for developing fun, effective student assessment portfolios and integrating assessment and instruction.
The Portfolio Connection
Student Work Linked to Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
This third edition covers implementing portfolios that incorporate standards. Includes examples for students with special needs, plus expanded information on e-portfolios and NCLB's impact on assessment.
Competency-Based Education and Assessment
The Excelsior Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Assessment is the bedrock upon which any quality CBE program should be built. Yet, while educators understand the concept of measuring learning, they may not be familiar with the complexities involved in measuring the application of that learning. Using Excelsior College’s model–-shaped over four...
Brilliant Tactics to Pass Aptitude Tests
Psychometric, numeracy, verbal reasoning and many more
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Selection tests are now common in interviews and this book covers everything you need to know from knowing what the tests are used for to how to do well in them.
This book explains why employers put you through these hoops, and why you shouldn't worry about them. It offers ways for you to prepare...