Author: Bond, Trevor G. / Fox, Christine M. Publisher: Psychology Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Written in an accessible style, this book facilitates a deep understanding of the Rasch model. Authors Bond and Fox review the crucial properties of the Rasch model and demonstrate its use with a wide...
Author: Vincent Greaney, / Thomas Kellaghan, Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The National Assessments of Educational Achievement Series introduces readers to key concepts and issues related to assessments of student achievement levels. The first volume focuses on policy issues...
Author: Greaney, Vincent Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'Education for All', supported by the international community, emphasizes the importance of learning quality. This book focuses on the use of assessment to monitor and evaluate learning in Sub Saharan...
Author: Camara, Wayne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the issue of how higher education institutions can--or should--choose students during the early part of the 21st century. The volume is particul...
Author: Anderson, Lorin W. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book is based on the belief that decision making is perhaps the most critical of all teaching skills and that good assessments lie at the core of good decision making. To become better teachers t...
Author: Anderson, Lorin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The goal of this bk is to help practicing & prospective teachers gather better info and make better decisions. Unlike more conventional classrm bks, it balances material about assmnt w/material about ...
Author: Langer, Georgea M. / Colton, Amy B. / Goff, Loretta S. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When teachers get together and apply their combined knowledge and experience to the challenges of teaching and learning, amazing things can happen. In this book, you'll find out how to set up collabor...
Author: Wilson, Mark Publisher: Routledge Academic Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book introduces researchers, practitioners, and advanced measurement students to a new, integrated view of measurement based on item response modeling and construct referencing.
Description: This guide for educators looks at major issues in language testing and provides knowledge, techniques, and strategies to design and implement assessments for use in classrooms that maximize fairness a...
Author: Marzano, Robert J. Publisher: Solution Tree Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment. He explains how to design and interpret...
Author: Swanson, Kristin / Turkington, Carol Publisher: McGraw-Hill Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the areas of study students find most difficult to master--and are most fearful of--is math. Yet the core math skills acquired in the first four years of school form the basis of all future aca...
Author: Gruber, Gary Publisher: Sourcebooks Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Using the exclusive Gruber methods, this book will give parents and teachers strategies to "nip in the bud" any faulty thinking approaches when it comes to education and testing and enforce the correc...
Author: Gruber, Gary Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the current No Child Left Behind education environment, test taking is more important than ever. A must for parents helping their children understand the important thinking strategies in all test-t...
Author: Phye, Gary D. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Handbook of Classroom Assessment takes a multi-dimensional approach to classroom assessment. A successful combination of theory and practice, the book emphasizes the assessment of classroom learni...
Author: Moss, David M. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Interdisciplinary Education in the Age of Assessment addresses a prevalent need in educational scholarship today. Many current standards-enforced curricula follow strict subject-specific guidelines. B...
Author: Kellaghan, Thomas / Grenaney, Vincent / Murray, T. Scott Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What are students learning? Throughout the world, governments striving to improve educational quality are turning to national assessments to provide this much-needed information in key curriculum area...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Science Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The future of online assessment and measurement is in the hands of the early adopters and hardy pioneers who are determined to overcome the challenges and help push forward and out the learning and as...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Science Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Online Assessment, Measurement and Evaluation: Emerging Practices provides a view of the possibilities and challenges facing online educators and evaluators in the 21st Century. As technology evolves ...
Author: Schank, Roger C. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: To hear politicians talk, one would think the entire purpose of school is to assess children rather than educate them. Excitement about learning doesn't seem to be on anyone's agenda. The villains are...
Description: Setting standards of performance is a ubiquitous task in education licensure, certification, and credentialling. It is found in elementary schooling, the professions, commercial applications, and gove...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Setting standards of performance is a ubiquitous task in education licensure, certification, and credentialling. It is found in elementary schooling, the professions, commercial applications, and gove...
Author: Marzano, Robert J. / Heflebower, Tammy Publisher: MRL Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of change in the world is accelerating. The authors believe a combination of cognitive skills (skills students will need to succeed academically) and conative ski...
Author: Russell, Michael Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Together, the words technology and assessment have different meaning for different people. Those who work with educational or instructional technology take these words to mean assessing the impacts of...
Author: Popham, W. James Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The right kinds of tests, correctly applied, can help every teacher become a better teacher. But unless you know the nuts and bolts of effective test design and application, you may be collecting the ...
Author: Stobart, Gordon Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book raises controversial questions about current uses of assessment and provides a framework for understanding them. It will be of great interest to teaching professionals involved in further st...
Author: Black, P. J. Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written in a user-friendly, jargon-free style, this text provides the reader with points of growth or change in the field of assessment. Each chapter in the text ends with a section on questions/exerc...
Author: Tankersley, Karen Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Now that the No Child Left Behind Act has left its mark on public education, educators across the United States are all the more invested in preparing their students for state and national assessments...
Author: Bryon, Mike Publisher: Kogan Page Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Advanced Numeracy Test Workbook provides practice for key quantitative operations, accounting and business comprehension tests, geometry and further quantitative operations.
Author: Ferris, Stewart, Publisher: Summersdale Self Help Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Don't let preparing for your driving test drive you up the wall! With tips from instructors and new drivers alike for both before and during the exam, this little book is jam-packed with helpful advi...
Author: Popham, W. James Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With public and political demand for educational accountability never higher, educators are under enormous pressure to raise students' scores on standardized achievement tests. Policymakers are backin...
Author: Popham, W. James Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "In this follow-up to the best-selling Transformative Assessment, W. James Popham takes you inside the classrooms-and inside the heads-of teachers who are using the formative assessment process to imp...
Author: Lambert, David / Lines, David Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book aims to clarify the 'big picture' of monitoring and assessment. It takes on the whole canvass from marking to public examinations and aims to make this topic meaningful and coherent for the ...
Author: Au, Wayne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By putting historical, social, and educational elements together, Unequal By Design shows high-stakes, standardized tests are not only premised on the creation of inequality, but that their structures...
Author: Swaffield, Sue Publisher: David Fulton Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Assessment is a prime concern for everyone involved with education. Unlocking Assessment explores the values, principles, research and theories that underpin our understanding of assessment, encouragi...
Author: Weeden, Paul Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years. This book gathers together the latest thinking and looks at how assessment can be used to promote or...
Author: Burke, Kay Publisher: Solution Tree Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own rep...
Author: Tatsuoka, Kikumi K. Publisher: Routledge Academic Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book introduces a new methodology for the analysis of test results. Free from ambiguous interpretations, the results truly demonstrate an individual's progress. The methodology is ideal for highl...
Author: Tatsuoka, Kikumi K. Publisher: Routledge Academic Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book introduces a new methodology for the analysis of test results. Free from ambiguous interpretations, the results truly demonstrate an individual's progress. The methodology is ideal for highl...
Description: Data Teams Success Stories Volume 1 shares the experiences of vastly different schools and districts from all over the country as they successfully implement the Data Teams Process.
Description: One of the areas of study students find most difficult to master--and are most fearful of--is math. Yet the core math skills acquired in the first four years of school form the basis of all future aca...
Author: Farley, Todd Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Just as American educators, parents, and policymakers reconsider the No Child Left Behind Act and its heavy emphasis on standardized testing, Todd Farley's Making the Grades raises questions about the...
Author: Newton, Lynn D. Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There is increasing pressure on students training to be secondary teachers to develop their subject expertise and classroom competence in a short space of time. All students on secondary initial teach...
Author: Zwick, Rebecca Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The controversy surrounding the implications of standardized tests for college admissions is constant among the general public, academics, administrators, policy makers, and certainly students. This u...
