Testing Measurement category: 779 books
by Ramazan Gençay, Faruk Selçuk, Brandon J. Whitcher
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2001
An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics presents a unified view of filtering techniques with a special focus on wavelet analysis in finance and economics. It emphasizes the methods and explanations of the theory that underlies them. It also concentrates on...
How to Master Psychometric Tests
Expert Advice on Test Preparation with Practice Questions from Leading Test Providers
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Psychometric tests are used by the majority of medium to large-sized organizations to assess the abilities of clerical, technical, graduate and executive job candidates. There is also an increasing trend for universities to use them as part of their admissions procedure.
This best-selling guide...
How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests
Over 500 Practice Questions
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Containing the largest bank of test questions on the market, How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests provides advice, practice and exercises to help you prepare for the rigorous tests used by employers, helping you to build up speed, accuracy and confidence. Testing expert Mike Bryon offers...
Mission High
One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This book is a godsend
a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators.” -Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National and ScholarMatch
Darrell...
This Is Not A Test
A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The conversation about turning around failing schools is in the national spotlight, and that spotlight is often focused on schools that black and brown children attend. Certain proposals to improve urban schools generate lots of headlines: expanding charter schools, funding school vouchers, using...
Fear and Learning in America
Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this moving account*, *“America’s Superintendent” John Kuhn lays bare the scare tactics at the root of the modern school “reform” movement. Kuhn conveys a deeply held passion for the mission and promise of public education through his own experience as a school administrator in Texas....
by Dorothy H. Cohen, Virginia Stern, Nancy Balaban
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Sixth Edition of their classic text, the authors reiterate the critical importance of observing and recording the behavior of young children, especially in the current atmosphere of accountability and testing. In addition, because children with special needs are now widely included in a majority...
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?
And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2004
Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic...
by M.D. Reckase
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
First thorough treatment of multidimensional item response theory
Description of methods is supported by numerous practical examples
Describes procedures for multidimensional computerized adaptive testing
by Jennifer Overend Prior
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Prepare your grade 6 students for standardized testing with motivating informational text and comprehension exercises that can be used daily! Developed by reading expert, Dr. Edward Fry, this book is based on articles from TIME For Kids® magazine and focuses on increasing students' comprehension,...
The Aptitude Test Workbook: Discover Your Potential and Improve Your Career Options with Practice Psychometric Tests
Discover Your Potential and Improve Your Career Options with Practice Psychometric Tests
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Many organizations and educational institutions use psychometric testing to uncover candidates' abilities and asses their potential. The Aptitude Test Workbook will help candidates prepare for these tests and give them an awareness of their strengths and where they could take you. A companion to Test...
Assessing Performance
Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the...
by Danica Kassebaum
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Did you know that swimming pools are used to train astronauts? Athletes use swimming pools to train when they're injured, and doctors use them to help patients feel better. Learn how swimming pools and aquatic therapy help all kinds of people! Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution,...
The Sacred Enneagram Workbook
Mapping Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
**Whether you are looking to discover your type for the first time or take a deeper dive into your identity, The Sacred Enneagram Workbook is designed to help you grow in your spiritual life through the understanding of your Enneagram type.
Most of us spend a lifetime trying to figure out...