Testing Measurement category: 779 books
High-Stakes Schooling
What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we...
The Testing Charade
Pretending to Make Schools Better
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
For decades we’ve been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there’s still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that schools need to be held accountable—we need...
Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S.
Undercurrents of Race, Class, and Power in the Struggle for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically. Willis analyzes the ideological...
by Mark E. Maruish, E. Anne Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Written by a recognized expert in assessment employed by a large managed behavioral healthcare organization (MBHO), this book seeks to provide psychologists who rely on testing as an integral part of their practice, a guide on how to survive and thrive in the era of managed behavioral healthcare....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
'This volume addresses a very timely and important topic, and provides both broad and in-depth coverage of a number of large-scale English tests in China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and about the Chinese learner.' – Lyle F. Bachman, From the Foreword
Building on current theoretical and...
by Walter M. Haney, George F. Madaus, Robert Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Standardized testing in the United States has been increasing at a rapid pace in the last twenty-five years. The market for tests has not only been expanding rapidly, but has also been changing sharply in structure into a fractured marketplace. Indeed, one of the main features of this book is that...
The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment
Volume 1: General Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
Test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on psychological services across the board and psychological testing in particular, it continues to offer a rapid and efficient...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching language testing should have a copy of this book. The information, discussions, and reflections offered within...
The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment
Volume 2: Instruments for Children and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on psychological services across the board and psychological testing in particular, it continues to offer a rapid and efficient...
Personality (Psychology Revivals)
Measurement and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Originally published in 1983 and written in the tradition of the British School of Psychology, Spearman, Burt, Eysenck, Cattell, this book from a well-known author was exceptional at the time in its attempt to wed quantification and psychological theory in the study of personality.
The student...
by Alan S. Kaufman, Susan Engi Raiford, Diane L. Coalson
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Interpret the WISC–V to help diagnose learning disabilities and to translate profiles of test scores to educational action
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Fifth Edition (WISC–V) is a valuable tool for assessing children and adolescents with learning disorders—and Intelligent...
The Test
Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized TestingBut You Don't Have to Be
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
"[The anti-testing] movement now has a guidebook. . . . Kamenetz shows how fundamentally American it would be to move toward a more holistic system." -New York Times Book Review
The Test is an essential and critically acclaimed book for any parent confounded by our national obsession with standardized...
Psychometric Testing In A Week
Using Psychometric Tests In Seven Simple Steps
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Psychometric testing just got easier
We can measure how tall someone is, how strong they are or how fast they can run. But is it also possible to evaluate an individual's character traits, how they think and how they mightreact in a given situation? With psychometric tests, we can.
Most people...
by Thomas M. Haladyna, Michael C. Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Since test items are the building blocks of any test, learning how to develop and validate test items has always been critical to the teaching-learning process. As they grow in importance and use, testing programs increasingly supplement the use of selected-response (multiple-choice) items with constructed-response...