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Author : Nancy B. Schantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : College entrance achievement tests
ISBN : UIUC:30112051835467
Author : Nancy B. Schantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Educational tests and measurements
ISBN : LCCN:83601019
Author : Eric A. Hanushek,Ludger Woessmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262548953
A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country's development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing human capital, but Hanushek and Woessmann argue that message has become distorted, with politicians and researchers concentrating not on valued skills but on proxies for them. The common focus is on school attainment, although time in school provides a very misleading picture of how skills enter into development. Hanushek and Woessmann contend that the cognitive skills of the population—which they term the “knowledge capital” of a nation—are essential to long-run prosperity. Hanushek and Woessmann subject their hypotheses about the relationship between cognitive skills (as consistently measured by international student assessments) and economic growth to a series of tests, including alternate specifications, different subsets of countries, and econometric analysis of causal interpretations. They find that their main results are remarkably robust, and equally applicable to developing and developed countries. They demonstrate, for example, that the “Latin American growth puzzle” and the “East Asian miracle” can be explained by these regions' knowledge capital. Turning to the policy implications of their argument, they call for an education system that develops effective accountability, promotes choice and competition, and provides direct rewards for good performance.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : CUB:U183034913764
Author : Gilbert R. Austin,Herbert Garber
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483216287
The Rise and Fall of National Test Scores examines, in some depth, the nature of test score changes over an extended period of time and in a broad range of subject matters and levels of schooling. The book contains chapters contributed by experts on various aspects of educational tests and score interpretation and uses. The text discusses the interpretations of trends in college admissions test scores and questions about the post-admission performance of ethnic minority students. The book examines general school achievement trends of high school students and the trends observed in broad-based testing programs of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The complexities involved in obtaining dependable data with which to make informed judgments about reading achievement trends are examined. The text further tackles the positive and negative trends in academic achievement in Science with particular emphasis on the effects of curriculum revision; as well as the problems of mathematics testing. The book then describes test score trends and problems in Great Britain and Ireland, with attention given to the similarities and differences of those countries and the United States. Educators, researchers, political leaders, and informed, interested laymen will find the book invaluable.
Author : William A. Firestone,Roberta Y. Schorr,Lora F. Monfils
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135624217
Testing is one of the most controversial of all state and federal educational policies. The effects of testing are quite ambiguous. The same test may lead to different consequences in different circumstances, and teachers may use very different strategies to prepare students for tests. Although most experts agree that mandatory testing leads to teaching to the test, they disagree about whether it leads to meaningless drill, wasted time, de-professionalizing teachers, and demotivating students, or to more challenging and thoughtful curricula, more engaging teaching, increased student motivation, and increased accountability. To help sort through this ambiguity and provide a firmer basis for decisions, The Ambiguity of Teaching to the Test: Standards, Assessment, and Educational Reform offers a hard look at the effects of state testing, and thoroughly examines the ambiguity of test preparation and how test preparation practices are influenced by what teachers know and the leadership coming from the school and district. Drawing on data from a three-year study of New Jersey's testing policy in elementary mathematics and science, it helps to explain the variety of ways that teachers modify their teaching in response to state tests, raises important questions, and offers useful guidance on how state policymakers and local and district school administrators can implement policies that will improve educational equity and performance for all students. It also offers an in-depth analysis of classroom practices that should inform teachers and teacher educators whose goal is to meaningfully implement conceptually based teaching practices. This comprehensive look at the statewide variation in testing practice features: *a data-based, non-ideological treatment of how testing affects teachers, in a field characterized by ideologically driven beliefs and by anecdotes; *an extensive and well-integrated combination of qualitative and quantitative data sources that provide a statewide overview, as well as an in-depth analysis of teachers and classrooms; *a careful analysis of the variety of forms of teaching to the test; and *a multilevel exploration of how a variety of personal and leadership factors can influence teaching to the test. This is an important book for researchers, professionals, and students in educational testing, educational policy, educational administration, mathematics and science education, educational reform, and the politics and sociology of education. It will also prove useful for state policymakers, school and district leaders, and teacher educators and curriculum specialists who are making decisions about how to design and respond to new testing systems.
Author : Lawrence E. Cary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Irrigation water
ISBN : UIUC:30112098307306
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112000720190
Author : Anderson, Mark
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781466699847
The quality of students’ learning experiences is a critical concern for all higher education institutions. With the assistance of modern technological advances, educational establishments have the capability to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their learning programs. Developing Effective Educational Experiences through Learning Analytics is a pivotal reference source that focuses on the adoption of data mining and analysis techniques in academic institutions, examining how this collected information is utilized to improve the outcome of student learning. Highlighting the relevance of data analytics to current educational practices, this book is ideally designed for researchers, practitioners, and professionals actively involved in higher education settings.
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309128148
In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a prominent example of such an effort, but it is only the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test-based accountability in education that has been going on for decades. Over time, such accountability systems included ever-stronger incentives to motivate school administrators, teachers, and students to perform better. Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education reviews and synthesizes relevant research from economics, psychology, education, and related fields about how incentives work in educational accountability systems. The book helps identify circumstances in which test-based incentives may have a positive or a negative impact on student learning and offers recommendations for how to improve current test-based accountability policies. The most important directions for further research are also highlighted. For the first time, research and theory on incentives from the fields of economics, psychology, and educational measurement have all been pulled together and synthesized. Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education will inform people about the motivation of educators and students and inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountability systems. Education researchers, K-12 school administrators and teachers, as well as graduate students studying education policy and educational measurement will use this book to learn more about the motivation of educators and students. Education policy makers at all levels of government will rely on this book to inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountability systems.
Author : A. C. Lietz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Water quality
ISBN : UFL:31262073948068
Author : Janice J. Weinman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Examinations
ISBN : WISC:89001839034
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : UCSD:31822008810533
Author : Yang Yang,Kenneth C. Land
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781466507531
This book explores the ways in which statistical models, methods, and research designs can be used to open new possibilities for APC analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors synthesize APC models and methods for three research designs: age-by-time period tables of population rates or proportions, repeated cross-section sample surveys, and accelerated longitudinal panel studies. They show how the empirical application of the models to various problems leads to many fascinating findings on how outcome variables develop along the age, period, and cohort dimensions.
Author : David M. O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : IND:32000013398245
