Testing category: 779 books
Understanding Adult Attachment in Family Relationships
Research, Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Attachment theory has become a key focus of both research and practice in understanding and treating psychological and social risk for marital and relationship problems, parenting and clinical disorders. In particular, adult attachment style is a key explanatory factor for understanding problems in...
Passing the UKCAT and BMAT
Advice, Guidance and Over 650 Questions for Revision and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
The most comprehensive guide available for the UKCAT and BMAT!
If you're an aspiring doctor or dentist, this book is all you need to face the admissions tests with confidence and get in to medical or dental school - whichever universities you‘re applying to. Offering support for both the...
by Glenn Hutton, Rosalie Hutton, Felicity Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
This revised and updated 2011 edition is the most comprehensive guide available to the UKCAT and BMAT. Readers will find all they need to face the tests with confidence, fulfil their potential and succeed in their application - whichever universities they are applying to. New questions have been added...
Invariant Measurement with Raters and Rating Scales
Rasch Models for Rater-Mediated Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The purpose of this book is to present methods for developing, evaluating and maintaining rater-mediated assessment systems. Rater-mediated assessments involve ratings that are assigned by raters to persons responding to constructed-response items (e.g., written essays and teacher portfolios) and...
by Bruce B. Frey
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Modern Classroom Assessment offers an applied, student-centered guide to the major research-based approaches to assessment in today’s modern classroom. Rather than simply list basic assessment formats with a few examples, as many textbooks do, award-winning professor and scholar Bruce Frey’s book...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their parents. "Assessing Children in the Urban Community" presents a semi-structured form of collaborative...
Straight Talk about Criminals
Understanding and Treating Antisocial Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Is there a genetic predisposition to crime? Should mental illness be taken into account? Do family and social environments have a role? Do people become abusers because they have been abused? How can people who do terrible things consider themselves good people? What should someone involved in a relationship...
Promoting Assessment as Learning
Improving the Learning Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Promoting Assessment as Learning sets out to re-examine the relationship between assessment and learning in the classroom. It argues that assessment is an important part of pupil learning, and needs to be understood by pupils in order to help them make judgements about their own progress.
This timely...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in all sectors of education and training, and the culture of assessment is shifting. The authors in this volume discuss the practice of assessment, reporting...
Preparing Students for College and Careers
Theory, Measurement, and Educational Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Preparing Students for College and Careers addresses measurement and research issues related to college and career readiness. Educational reform efforts across the United States have increasingly taken aim at measuring and improving postsecondary readiness. These initiatives include developing new...
Validating Technological Innovation
The Introduction and Implementation of Onscreen Marking in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
This book discusses Hong Kong’s use of onscreen marking (OSM) in public examinations. Given that Hong Kong leads the way in OSM innovation, this book has arisen from a recognised need to provide a comprehensive, coherent account of the findings of various separate but linked validation studies of...
by Margarita Calderón
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
As more English learners enroll in school each year, teachers and administrators are concerned with the large gap in reading and academic standing between ELs and students performing at grade level. This book addresses the language, literacy, and content instructional needs of ELs and frames quality instruction within effective schooling structures and the implementation of RTI.
Assessment for Education
Standards, Judgement and Moderation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
'This is a very exciting book and should be read widely by anyone who wants a better understanding of the role of assessment in the diverse, globalised, digital societies of the 21st century.'
- Professor Mary James, University of Cambridge, President, British Educational Research Association
'Highly...
My Life as a Car
A Mental Wellness Guide in Your Glove Compartment
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
According to the World Health Organization, one in every four people will develop at least one mental disorder at some stage in their life. In the U.S., of the persons who suspect they (or a family member) have a mental disorder, one-in-three persons will seek out one or more resources to make a self-evaluation....