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Understanding PISA’s Attractiveness
Critical Analyses in Comparative Policy Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Understanding PISA's Attractiveness examines how policy makers and the media interpret the results of PISA league-leaders, losers, and slippers in ways that suit their own reform agendas. As a result, a myriad of explanations exist as to why an educational system is high or low performing. The chapters,...
Rethinking Value-Added Models in Education
Critical Perspectives on Tests and Assessment-Based Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Since passage of the of No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, academic researchers, econometricians, and statisticians have been exploring various analytical methods of documenting students‘ academic progress over time. Known as value-added models (VAMs), these methods are meant to measure the value...
How To Pass Psychometric Tests
This book gives you information, confidence and plenty of practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
In this book, author Andrea Shavick explains all there is to know about psychometric tests: what they are, what they measure, who uses them, why they're used, how they're changing, how to survive them, and even how to avoid them altogether! It includes 35 different, genuine, practice test from SHL...
by Mr Mark Patmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
The clock is ticking and before you know, it will be September! Use our popular study guides Passing the Numeracy Skills Test and Passing the Literacy Skills Test to get those pesky skills tests done and dusted asap.
You’ll be more confident
These books are authored by experts who know the QTS...
Intelligenza emotiva 2.0
Include una edizione online del test di intelligenza emotiva più apprezzato del mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Il 90% delle persone di maggior successo vanta un elevato QE (quoziente emotivo). Per raggiungere i propri obiettivi nella vita, il QE è due volte più importante del quoziente intellettivo (QI). Il dottori Bradberry e Greaves offrono un programma graduale che permette di aumentare l'intelligenza...
Linear Models in Matrix Form
A Hands-On Approach for the Behavioral Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
This textbook is an approachable introduction to statistical analysis using matrix algebra. Prior knowledge of matrix algebra is not necessary. Advanced topics are easy to follow through analyses that were performed on an open-source spreadsheet using a few built-in functions. These topics include...
Invariant Measurement
Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This introductory text describes the principles of invariant measurement, how invariant measurement can be achieved with Rasch models, and how to use invariant measurement to solve measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Rasch models are used throughout but a comparison...
Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services
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 PBAS effectiveness at achieving performance goals. This study examines nine PBASs that are...
Packaging Digital Information for Enhanced Learning and Analysis
Data Visualization, Spatialization, and Multidimensionality
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
With higher education turning towards data analytics as the next big advance in technology, it is important to look at how information is gathered and visualized for accurate comprehension, analysis, and decision-making. Packaging Digital Information for Enhanced Learning and Analysis: Data Visualization,...
The Personality Of Success
Tips and Tricks For All 16 Personality Types
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
“Whether people first hear about the two kinds of perception and two kinds of judgment as children, high school students, or parents or grandparents, the richer development of their own type can be a rewarding adventure for the rest of their lives.” Isabel Myers
THE MUST-HAVE BOOK ABOUT PERSONALITY,...
Benchmarking for School Improvement
A Practical Guide for Comparing and Achieving Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Benchmarking is a term used by the DfEE and OFSTED to describe a school's performance against a national or local average. This useful guide helps senior management teams of schools or colleges, to undertake their own benchmarking, with the aim of increasing effectiveness and improvement.
Tony Kelly...
Psychometrics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Using a meaning-based approach that emphasizes the “why” over the “how to,” Psychometrics: An Introduction provides thorough coverage of fundamental issues in psychological measurement. Author R. Michael Furr discusses traditional psychometric perspectives and issues including reliability,...
Applying Test Equating Methods
Using R
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This book describes how to use test equating methods in practice. The non-commercial software R is used throughout the book to illustrate how to perform different equating methods when scores data are collected under different data collection designs, such as equivalent groups design, single group...
Understanding Early Years Inequality
Policy, assessment and young children's identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus on issues of inequality. Drawing on accounts of life in early years classrooms, Alice Bradbury suggests that a specific...