- November 2009
145.- Euro
2009. 512 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-52281-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-52281-3 - John Wiley & Sons








Detailed description
While maintaining a reader friendly, conversational approach to a technical topic area, Educational Testing and Measurement, 9th edition, introduces students to the dramatic developments that have occurred in the field over the last few years. More importantly, the text aims to clearly explain their implications for teachers while addressing the controversies that have arisen around these developments.

In addition to discussing the previous topics of NCLB, high-stakes testing, and the IDEIA, a completely new chapter on the response-to-intervention (RTI) identification approach has been added, as well as a new section on curriculum-based measurement (CBM), a key component of the RTI approach, in order to bring students "up to speed" in the complexities and controversies of these issues, while presenting the information in a thoughtful, balanced way.

From the contents
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Contemporary Educational Testing and Measurement

Chapter 2: High-Stakes Testing

Chapter 3: Response-to-Intervention (RTI) and the Regular Classroom Teacher

Chapter 4: The Purpose of Testing

Chapter 5: Norm- and Criterion-Referenced Tests and Content Validity Evidence

Chapter 6: Measuring Learning Outcomes

Chapter 7: Writing Objective Test Items

Chapter 8: Writing Essay Test Items

Chapter 9: Performance-Based Assessment

Chapter 10: Portfolio Assessment

Chapter 11: Administering, Analyzing, and Improving the Test or Assessment

Chapter 12: Marks and Marking Systems

Chapter 13: Summarizing Data and Measures of Central Tendency

Chapter 14: Variability, the Normal Distribution, and Converted Scores

Chapter 15: Correlation

Chapter 16: Validity Evidence

Chapter 17: Reliability

Chapter 18: Accuracy and Error

Chapter 19: Standardized Tests

Chapter 20: Types of Standardized Tests

Chapter 21: In the Classroom: A Summary Dialogue

Appendix A: Math Skills Review

Appendix B: Preparing for the Praxis II: Principles of Learning and Teaching Assessment

Appendix C: Determining the Median When There are Multiple Tied Scores

Appendix D: Pearson Product-Moment Correlation

Appendix E: Statistics and Measurement Texts

Appendix F: Answers for Practice Questions

Suggested Readings

References

Credits

Index