Testing category: 779 books
Unequal By Design
High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Unequal By Design critically examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. This thoughtful analysis traces standardized testing’s origins in the Eugenics and Social Efficiency...
Collateral Damage
How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system.
For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate...
by Dr. Alan S. Kaufman, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Does your IQ really measure your intelligence?
Is IQ genetic?
Can your IQ vary?
Do we get smarter or dumber as we get older?
How will IQ tests be different in the future?
Dr. Kaufman, a leading expert on the development of IQ tests, explores these critical questions and many more in IQ Testing 101....
The Global Education Race
Taking the Measure of PISA and International Testing
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
A global education race now pits countries, regions, and school systems against one another. The racecourse has been created by a small number of influential international testing programs, and the popular media announces winners and losers. Fear of falling behind haunts policy-makers and shapes educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Over the past thirty years, student assessment has become an increasingly important component of public education. A variety of methodologies in testing have been developed to obtain and interpret the wealth of assessment outcomes. As assessment goals are getting increasingly multifaceted, new testing...
The ABCs of Educational Testing
Demystifying the Tools That Shape Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Amplify your assessment literacy.
Formative, data-driven, high-stakes—we all know the buzzwords surrounding educational testing. But we often shelve our understanding of these because they are overwhelmingly complex. Those who care about our schools and students—teachers, administrators,...
Computerized Adaptive Testing
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
This celebrated primer presents an introduction to all of the key ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory. Based on years of research, this accessible book educates the novice and serves as a compendium of state-of-the-art...
Modern Psychometrics
The Science of Psychological Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Today psychometrics plays an increasingly important role in all our lives as testing and assessment occurs from preschool until retirement. This book introduces the reader to the subject in all its aspects, ranging from its early history, school examinations, how to construct your own test, controversies...
Psychological Testing
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Psychological tests are everywhere. They are widely used by practitioners, researchers, clinicians, and educators -anyone, in fact, who needs to measure various aspects of personality, cognitive abilities, mood and suchlike. Psychometrics is the science of psychological assessment. It covers the construction,...
by T. Kelleghan, George F. Madaus, P.W. Airasian
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the past two or three decades, research in cognitive science and psychology has yielded an improved understanding of the fundamental psychological nature of knowledge and cognitive skills that psychological testing attempts to measure. These theories have reached sufficient maturity, making...
Psychological Testing in Everyday Life
History, Science, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Psychological Testing in Everyday Life explores how psychological testing is used in real-life settings tomake the study of psychometrics interesting, relevant, and highly accessible. Author Karen B. Goldfinger examines a broad range of carefully selected topics to capture student interest, encourage...
Testing and Inclusive Schooling
International Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Testing and Inclusive Schooling provides a comparative perspective on seemingly incompatible global agendas and efforts to include all children in the general school system, thus reducing exclusion. With an examination of the international testing culture and the politics of inclusion currently permeating...
Measuring History
Cases of StateLevel Testing Across the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of statelevel testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the particular state history...