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Testwise
Understanding Educational Assessment
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2011
Summary
Testwise: Understanding Educational Assessment offers a 360-degree guided tour of its subject. Both volumes in this comprehensive two-volume set explore different aspects of investigating what students have learned. To set the scene, Volume One highlights recurrent themes and the contemporary context. With roots in both academic traditions and the natural sciences, today's achievement testing reaches beyond the classroom to figure in policies aimed at educational reform and societal change. How do the ways in which we assess learning reflect values in our culture? What roles do citizens, educators, government officials, and measurement professionals play? Against this background, Volume One then lays out the fundamental principles in assessment. As the central chapters explain validity, reliability, fairness, and the language of scores, they illuminate key challenges and difficult tradeoffs associated with matters of technical quality. In helping the reader understand current issues in testing and evaluate actual tests, Testwise also puts assessment of learning in a new light. It is a process of critical thinking, reasoning from evidence, and defining the goals of education.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61048-011-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-61048-013-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
262
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Prologue No access
Chapter One. The Origins of Educational Measurement: A Quest to Quantify No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter Two. In the Modern Era: A Tool for Classroom and Society No access Pages 19 - 38
Chapter Three. Educational Assessmentand National Values No access Pages 39 - 56
Chapter Four. Perspectives and Directives No access Pages 57 - 76
Chapter Five. Validity No access Pages 77 - 102
Chapter Six. Reliability No access Pages 103 - 132
Chapter Seven. Fairness and Accessibility No access Pages 133 - 160
Chapter Eight. The Meanings and Uses of Scores No access Pages 161 - 192
