Testing category: 779 books
Leading Assessment for Student Success
Ten Tenets That Change Culture and Practice in Student Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
While both committed to providing effective programs and services that help students succeed in college and beyond, and aware of the increasing demands from internal and external stakeholders that every dollar spent benefits students and contributes to the mission of higher education, student affairs...
by Robert K. Gable
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Measuring Noncognitive Variables
Improving Admissions, Success and Retention for Underrepresented Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Measuring Noncognitive Variables: Improving Admissions, Success, and Retention for Underrepresented Students is written for admissions professionals, counselors, faculty and advisers who admit, teach, or work with students during the admissions process and post-enrollment period. It brings together theory,...
Nine Dimensions of Madness
Redefining Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In a book that reframes the mental health debate, Robert L. Gallon challenges the widely-held notion that mental disorders are medical diseases. Drawing on his extensive experience as a psychologist who has worked with thousands of patients, he argues that there are no objective indicators of mental...
Measuring Up
Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
In recent decades, the science of reading acquisition has been advancing through interdisciplinary research in cognitive, psycholinguistic, developmental, genetic, neuroscience, cross-language, and experimental comparison studies of effective instruction. Some of the science of reading has emerged...
The Data-Driven Classroom
How do I use student data to improve my instruction? (ASCD Arias)
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Thanks to initiatives like the Common Core and Race to the Top, accountability requirements continue to be a reality for educators. Yet many are still unsure of how to use data to make well-informed instructional decisions.
The Data-Driven Classroom comes to the rescue with a systematic, universal...
Passing the Mathematics Test for Elementary Teachers
Offering a Pathway to Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Have you ever found yourself saying, “I’m never going to pass the math pre-service exam!” This statement, and many others like it, led the authors to discover exactly how to crack the math pre-service exam test code and students are reaping all the benefits. How to Pass the Pre-Service Mathematics...
Inheriting Possibility
Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
How has the dominant social scientific paradigm limited our understanding of the impact of inherited economic resources, social privilege, and sociocultural practices on multigenerational inequality? In what ways might multiple forces of social difference haunt quantitative measurements of ability such...
Race and Intelligence
Separating Science From Myth
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In recent years, reported racial disparities in IQ scores have been the subject of raging debates in the behavioral and social sciences and education. What can be made of these test results in the context of current scientific knowledge about human evolution and cognition? Unfortunately, discussion...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Covering physics/physical science, life science/biology, earth and space science, and chemistry, this research-based guide shows secondary teachers how to develop and use formative assessments to enhance learning in science.
Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom
Using Performance Criteria for Assessing and Improving Student Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
This book offers a practical approach to assessing challenging but necessary performance tasks like creative writing, "real-world" research projects, and cooperative group activities.
Classroom Assessment
Enhancing the Quality of Teacher Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
This book is based on the belief that decision making is perhaps the most critical of all teaching skills and that good assessments lie at the core of good decision making. To become better teachers then, teachers must learn to make informed decisions about both individual students (learning decisions)...
by Douglass J. Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Jung's Personality Theory Quantified fills an urgent need for professionals using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) to map it on to the cognitive modes of Jung’s personality theory, avoiding potential logical errors in the traditional “type dynamics” method. It furthers Jung’s original...
Cognitive Case Conceptualization
A Guidebook for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
For cognitive therapy to be successful, therapists must identify the key factors that contribute to their clients' problems. Effective cognitive case conceptualization necessarily precedes appropriate targeting and intervention selection. It requires the integration of the results of a comprehensive...