Educational testing and measurement : classroom application and practice /
Tom Kubiszyn, Gary Borich
- Sixth edition
- xiv, 530 pages
Introduction to contemporary educational testing and measurement -- High-stakes testing -- Purpose of testing -- Norm- and criterion-referenced tests and content validity evidence -- Measuring learning outcomes -- Writing objective test items -- Writing essay and higher order test items -- Performance-based assessment -- Portfolio assessment -- Administering, analyzing, and improving the test or assessment -- Marks and marking systems -- Summarizing data and measures of central tendency -- Variability, the normal distribution, and converted scores -- Correlation -- Validity evidence -- Reliability -- Accuracy and error -- Standardized tests -- Types of standardized tests -- Assessing children with disabilities in the regular classroom: a growing need -- Methods to assess children with disabilities in regular education classrooms -- In the classroom, a summary dialogue -- Appendixes: Maths skills review; Preparing for the Praxis II, principles of learning and teaching assessment; Determining the median when there are multiple tied middle scores; Pearson product-moment correlation; Statistics and measurement texts; Answers for practice questions
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