Testing category: 779 books
Test Fraud
Statistical Detection and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
There has been an increase in awareness (and perhaps occurrence) of individual and organized cheating on tests. Recent reports of widespread problems with state student accountability tests and teacher certification testing have raised questions about the very validity of assessment programs. While...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The second edition of the Handbook of Test Development provides graduate students and professionals with an up-to-date, research-oriented guide to the latest developments in the field. Including thirty-two chapters by well-known scholars and practitioners, it is divided into five sections, covering...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The goal of this book is to emphasize the formal statistical features of the practice of equating, linking, and scaling. The book encourages the view and discusses the quality of the equating results from the statistical perspective (new models, robustness, fit, testing hypotheses, statistical monitoring)...
Using Test Data for Student Achievement
Answers to No Child Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Schools are drowning in test data, but many schools do little with test results other than sort students into various categories of proficiency or lack thereof. Some educators feel testing has taken the joy out of teaching. Others believe valuable instructional time has been lost as a result of testing....
In Schools We Trust
Creating Communities of Learning in an era of Testing and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states-as our national surrogates for trust.
Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win...
Educational Equity and Accountability
Paradigms, Policies, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
Despite the intense political attention that has been focused on accountability, on standardized testing, and on the equity effects of both accountability and testing, the great majority of recent debate in education policy circles has failed to attend to either the dynamism or complexity of these...
Filling in The Blanks
Standardized Testing and the BlackWhite Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Filling in the Blanks is a book dedicated to helping policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers, better understand standardized testing and the BlackWhite achievement gap. This book provides a wealth of background information, as well as the most recent findings, about testing and measurement...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The new generation of tests is faced with new challenges. In the K?12 setting, the new learning targets are intended to assess higher?order thinking skills and prepare students to be ready for college and career and to keep American students competitive with their international peers. In addition,...
Standardized Testing Skills
Strategies, Techniques, Activities To Help Raise Students’ Scores
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 was to “drive broad gains in student achievement and to hold states and schools more accountable.” As early as third grade, students are required to master the grade curriculum while also becoming proficient in test taking skills. These young...
Assessing Students in the Margin
Challenges, Strategies, and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The importance of student assessment, particularly for summative purposes, has increased greatly over the past thirty years. At the same time, emphasis on including all students in assessment programs has also increased. Assessment programs, whether they are largescale, districtbased, or teacher developed,...
Assessing English Language Learners
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Assessing English Language Learners explains and illustrates the main ideas underlying assessment as an activity intimately linked to instruction and the basic principles for developing, using, selecting, and adapting assessment instruments and strategies to assess content knowledge in English language...
by Glayol V. Ekbatani
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Practical and concise, this introductory text for language teaching professionals is a guide to ESL assessment and to fulfilling the testing component of TESOL programs in the U.S. and around the world. Covering the fundamental descriptive and quantitative facets of effective language testing, it...
Computers and Their Impact on State Assessments
Recent History and Predictions for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Race To The Top program strongly advocates the use of computer technology in assessments. It dramatically promotes computerbased testing, linear or adaptive, in K12 state assessment programs. Moreover, assessment requirements driven by this federal initiative exponentially increase the complexity...
by Robyn Mather
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Mt. Multi is a set of basic mathematical tests which begin with the key times tables (2x to 12x, and doubles), then extends to include equations involving exponents, Roman numerals, algebra, BEDMAS, square root, negative and positive numbers, factorials, right angles, decimals and fractions. It was...