Testing Measurement category: 779 books
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...
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....
Learning from the Federal Market?Based Reforms
Lessons for ESSA
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top?down, market?focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice. The new Every Student Succeeds Act continues along this path, though with decision?making authority now shifted toward the states. These...
African Americans and Standardized Tests
The Real Reason for Low Test Scores
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
With a surprisingly honest and hard-hitting approach, this scathing indictment of the modern black family postulates that a lack of appreciation for literacy in the African American household is the true cause of low scores on today's standardized tests. Arguing that television, video games, rap...
A Paul Meehl Reader
Essays on the Practice of Scientific Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This new book introduces a new generation to the important insights of Paul Meehl. In addition to selected papers from the classic reader, Psychodiagnosis, this book features new material selected from Meehl's most influential writings. The resulting collection is a tour de force illustrating quantitative...
by Esther Chen
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
O Level Chemistry Practice for questions with answers.
Good for struggling students of O level Chemistry who needs in depth look at the mark breakdown in Chemistry questions.
Good for self study or returning students.
Improve your grades in Chemistry and get the much needed practice!
Multiple Choice and Structured Questions. 2 practice paper in 1 book
Examining the Examinations
An International Comparison of Science and Mathematics Examinations for College-Bound Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Examining the Examinations looks at the required advanced science and mathematics examinations taken by university-bound students in seven countries. This research focuses on topics covered, types of questions used, and performance expected from students. The book concentrates on comparisons of the...