The Abcs Of Educational Testing

Author : W. James Popham
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506351537

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The ABCs of Educational Testing by W. James Popham Pdf

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 : W. James Popham
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506351544

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The ABCs of Educational Testing by W. James Popham Pdf

Amplify your assessment literacy. Formative, data-driven, high-stakes—we all know the buzzwords surrounding educational testing. But often times we shelve our understanding of these terms because we think they are overwhelmingly complex. After all, isn’t that why we have "experts" crafting assessments? Those who care about our schools and students—teachers, administrators, policymakers, parents, citizens—will find The ABCs of Educational Testing the first accessible explanation of how and why having a fundamental understanding of educational testing is so important. Inappropriate tests are currently leading to harmful decision-making, and this book gives you everything you need to know to change that, including The purposes of tests The difference between and importance of reliability and validity How to build tests with fairness The importance of students’ affect Using a nontechnical and conversational approach, this book offers fundamental knowledge to free you from testing fogginess—all framed around practical actions you can take today to strengthen your assessment literacy for tomorrow.

Author : Kubiszyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0471420794

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Educational Testing and Measurement by Kubiszyn Pdf

Author : Tom Kubiszyn,Gary D. Borich
Publisher : Pearson Scott Foresman
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023219491

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Educational Testing and Measurement by Tom Kubiszyn,Gary D. Borich Pdf

Author : W. James Popham
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416626510

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Assessment Literacy for Educators in a Hurry by W. James Popham Pdf

What is assessment literacy? It's a handful of fundamental understandings about the testing concepts and procedures that influence educational decisions. And it just might be the most cost-effective means of real school improvement. With characteristic humor and aplomb, assessment expert W. James Popham strips away the psychometrician-speak and condenses the complexities of educational testing to six practical and action-oriented understandings about validity, reliability, fairness, score reporting, formative assessment, and affective assessment. This book is for busy educators at the classroom and leadership levels who want Tests that are worth the valuable time they take to administer. Tests that accurately measure what student have learned. Tests that fairly reflect teacher and school effectiveness. Tests that provide the instructionally useful data that will help students learn faster and better. Assessment Literacy for Educators in a Hurry is the fastest route to acquiring the measurement moxie necessary to understand and advocate for better assessment practices and build a case for stopping ineffective and harmful ones. In just a few hours' time, you can pick up the knowledge you need to do a whole lot of good—for your students, yourself, and our schools.

Author : Tom Kubiszyn,Gary D. Borich
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119239154

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Educational Testing and Measurement by Tom Kubiszyn,Gary D. Borich Pdf

Educational Testing and Measurement: Classroom Application and Practice, 11th Edition by Tom Kubiszyn and Gary D. Borich, serves as an up-to-date, practical, reader-friendly resource that will help readers navigate today's seemingly ever-changing and complex world of educational testing, assessment, and measurement. The 11th edition presents a balanced perspective of educational testing and assessment, informed by developments and the ever increasing research base.

Author : Lorraine M. McDonnell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674040786

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Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing by Lorraine M. McDonnell Pdf

In a story of reform and backlash, Lorraine McDonnell reveals the power and the dangers of policies based on appeals to voters' values. Exploring the political struggles inspired by mass educational tests, she analyzes the design and implementation of statewide testing in California, Kentucky, and North Carolina in the 1990s. Educational reformers and political elites sought to use test results to influence teachers, students, and the public by appealing to their values about what schools should teach and offering apparently objective evidence about whether the schools were succeeding. But mass testing mobilized parents who opposed and mistrusted the use of tests, and left educators trying to mediate between angry citizens and policies the educators may not have fully supported. In the end, some testing programs were significantly altered. Yet despite the risks inherent in relying on values to change what students are taught, these tests and the educational ideologies behind them have modified classroom practice. McDonnell draws lessons from these stories for the federal No Child Left Behind act, with its sweeping directives for high-stakes testing. To read this book is to witness the unfolding drama of America's educational culture wars, and to see hope for their resolution.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 0941375757

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Testing in American Schools by Anonim Pdf

Concludes that educational tests can be misleading or worse when used for purposes other than which they were originally designed. Charts and tables.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Educational tests and measurements
ISBN : MINN:31951D003573376

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Testing in American Schools by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ken O′Connor
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506334165

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How to Grade for Learning by Ken O′Connor Pdf

With more than 50,000 books sold, this resource for teachers and school teams will open illuminating and productive new visions of how to improve grading practices.

Author : Mary Richardson
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787357242

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Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment by Mary Richardson Pdf

Educational assessment is important. But in the twenty-first century it is easy to feel that schooling and other phases of education are shaped entirely by certain assessments, and that assessment is only about exam results. The idea that test grades can accurately describe the aims and outcomes of education is unfair and reductive. Yet it is a pervasive and persuasive discourse. This book is about such discourses - the stories we tell each other - and how they impact public trust and confidence in educational assessment. It explains the roots and nature of assessment discourses, and proposes a restructuring of the debates in order to rebuild public confidence. It aims to challenge dominant assessment discourses and demands a more nuanced, informed debate about what happens in and beyond schools, and how this influences public thinking. Questioning the status quo needs buy-in from policymakers, teachers, parents and students, and from the broader public: from journalists, you, me, our friends and our children. Using examples from international settings to explore the nature of trust in assessment discourses, Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment shows how these discourses can be reframed so that all aspects of the assessment system - policymaking, school planning, home practice with students - can be undertaken with confidence.

Author : Gerard Giordano
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820472557

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How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools by Gerard Giordano Pdf

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 : Educational Testing Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Educational tests and measurements
ISBN : OCLC:883926354

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Making the Classroom Test by Educational Testing Service Pdf

Author : Glenn Fulcher,Luke Harding
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000464665

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The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing by Glenn Fulcher,Luke Harding Pdf

This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing provides an updated and comprehensive account of the area of language testing and assessment. The volume brings together 35 authoritative articles, divided into ten sections, written by 51 leading specialists from around the world. There are five entirely new chapters covering the four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking, as well as a new entry on corpus linguistics and language testing. The remaining 30 chapters have been revised, often extensively, or entirely rewritten with new authorship teams at the helm, reflecting new generations of expertise in the field. With a dedicated section on technology in language testing, reflecting current trends in the field, the Handbook also includes an extended epilogue written by Harding and Fulcher, contemplating what has changed between the first and second editions and charting a trajectory for the field of language testing and assessment. Providing a basis for discussion, project work, and the design of both language tests themselves and related validation research, this Handbook represents an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners working in language testing and assessment and the wider field of language education.

Author : Bruce S. Cooper,James G. Cibulka,Lance D. Fusarelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135106768

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Handbook of Education Politics and Policy by Bruce S. Cooper,James G. Cibulka,Lance D. Fusarelli Pdf

This revised edition of the Handbook of Education Politics and Policy presents the latest research and theory on the most important topics within the field of the politics of education. Well-known scholars in the fields of school leadership, politics, policy, law, finance, and educational reform examine the institutional backdrop to our educational system, the political behaviors and cultural influences operating within schools, and the ideological and philosophical positions that frame discussions of educational equity and reform. In its second edition, this comprehensive handbook has been updated to capture recent developments in the politics of education, including Race to the Top and the Common Core State Standards, and to address the changing role politics play in shaping and influencing school policy and reform. Detailed discussions of key topics touch upon important themes in educational politics, helping leaders understand issues of innovation, teacher evaluation, tensions between state and federal lawmakers over new reforms and testing, and how to increase student achievement. Chapter authors also provide suggestions for improving the political behaviors of key educational groups and individuals with the hope that an understanding of political goals, governance processes, and policy outcomes may contribute to ongoing school reform.