Download Full eBooks in PDF
Testing In American Schools Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Testing In American Schools book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Educational tests and measurements
ISBN : MINN:31951D003573376
Author : Daniel Koretz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226408712
America's leading expert in educational testing and measurement openly names the failures caused by today's testing policies and provides a blueprint for doing better. 6 x 9.
Author : Anya Kamenetz
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610394420
"[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 testing. It recounts the shocking history and tempestuous politics of testing and borrows strategies from fields as diverse as games, neuroscience, and ancient philosophy to help children cope. It presents the stories of families, teachers, and schools maneuvering within and beyond the existing educational system, playing and winning the testing game. And it points the way toward a hopeful future of better tests and happier kids.
Author : Gerard Giordano
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820472557
Although originally designed as instruments to gauge students' progress, tests eventually were used to modify curricula, learning materials, pedagogy, and many practical features of schooling. Tests were employed to shape attitudes toward national issues such as employment, immigration, and defense. Worried about the enormous consequences that were at stake, advocates and opponents pitched their cases to educators, parents, journalists, and policymakers and also targeted special audiences. Testing proponents pleaded with military leaders, businesspeople, and scholastic publishers while their adversaries appealed to job seekers, college applicants, racial minorities, and anti-establishmentarians. This book illustrates how all of these parties showed interest; many became passionate; and some decisively influenced the course of American educational testing.
Author : Holly Dolezalek
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1604531134
Discusses standardized testing in schools and the controversy about its value as a tool, the history of testing, standards, and scoring, the No Child Left Behind Act, the effects on teaching, cheating among students and teachers, and public opinion about the topic.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 0941375757
Concludes that educational tests can be misleading or worse when used for purposes other than which they were originally designed. Charts and tables.
Author : Linda M. McNeil
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415920744
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : W. James Popham
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506351537
Amplify your assessment literacy. Formative, data-driven, high-stakes—we all know the buzzwords surrounding educational testing. But we often shelve our understanding of these because they are overwhelmingly complex. Those who care about our schools and students—teachers, administrators, policymakers, parents, citizens—will discover how and why testing should be taken upon ourselves to advance. Using a nontechnical approach, this book offers fundamental knowledge to free you from testing fogginess—all framed around practical actions you can take to strengthen your assessment literacy. Inappropriate tests are leading to mistaken decisions, and this book provides everything you need to know to change that, including Reasons for tests Reliability/validity Fairness Test-building
Author : Jack Schneider
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674976399
Test scores are the go-to metric of policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the best schools. Yet standardized tests are a poor way to measure school performance. Using the diverse urban school district of Somerville MA as a case study, Jack Schneider’s team developed a new framework to assess educational effectiveness.
Author : Ruth Mitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439138540
Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance.
Author : William J. Reese
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674075696
Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern public school system. William J. Reese offers a richly detailed history of an educational revolution that has so far been only partially told. Single-classroom schools were the norm throughout the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century. Pupils demonstrated their knowledge by rote recitation of lessons and were often assessed according to criteria of behavior and discipline having little to do with academics. Convinced of the inadequacy of this system, the reformer Horace Mann and allies on the Boston School Committee crafted America's first major written exam and administered it as a surprise in local schools in 1845. The embarrassingly poor results became front-page news and led to the first serious consideration of tests as a useful pedagogic tool and objective measure of student achievement. A generation after Mann's experiment, testing had become widespread. Despite critics' ongoing claims that exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children's health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. Testing Wars in the Public Schools puts contemporary battles over scholastic standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the historic successes and limitations of the pencil-and-paper exam.
Author : Dale D. Johnson,Bonnie Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742535320
High Stakes is a critical ethnography of an underfunded public elementary school in this era of accountability and high stakes testing. The book was written during the year the authors served as third and fourth grade teachers, and it juxtaposes the experiences of mostly minority children of poverty and their teachers with an examination of high stakes testing policies and the loss of a comprehensive education to political dictates.
Author : Alfie Kohn
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015050553703
Kohn's central message is that standardized tests are "not a force of nature but a force of politics--and political decisions can be questioned, challenged, and ultimately reversed."
Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:31951D00357376W
And policy options -- Testing in transition -- Educational testing policy: The changing federal role -- Lessons from the past: A history of educational testing in the United States -- How other countries test -- Standardized tests in schools: A primer -- Performance assessment: Methods and characteristics -- Information technologies and testing: Past, present, future -- List of acronyms -- Contractor reports.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Educational tests and measurements
ISBN : UCR:31210008175901