Download or read book The ABCs of Educational Testing written by W. James Popham and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book The ABCs of Educational Testing written by W. James Popham and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Testing in American Schools written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Testing in American Schools written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The ABCs of How We Learn 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches How They Work and When to Use Them written by Daniel L. Schwartz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, this book offers superior learning tools for teachers and students, from A to Z. An explosive growth in research on how people learn has revealed many ways to improve teaching and catalyze learning at all ages. The purpose of this book is to present this new science of learning so that educators can creatively translate the science into exceptional practice. The book is highly appropriate for the preparation and professional development of teachers and college faculty, but also parents, trainers, instructional designers, psychology students, and simply curious folks interested in improving their own learning. Based on a popular Stanford University course, The ABCs of How We Learn uses a novel format that is suitable as both a textbook and a popular read. With everyday language, engaging examples, a sense of humor, and solid evidence, it describes 26 unique ways that students learn. Each chapter offers a concise and approachable breakdown of one way people learn, how it works, how we know it works, how and when to use it, and what mistakes to avoid. The book presents learning research in a way that educators can creatively translate into exceptional lessons and classroom practice. The book covers field-defining learning theories ranging from behaviorism (R is for Reward) to cognitive psychology (S is for Self-Explanation) to social psychology (O is for Observation). The chapters also introduce lesser-known theories exceptionally relevant to practice, such as arousal theory (X is for eXcitement). Together the theories, evidence, and strategies from each chapter can be combined endlessly to create original and effective learning plans and the means to know if they succeed.
Download or read book Educational Testing and Measurement written by Tom Kubiszyn and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a jargon-free, reader-friendly conversational style and flexible format, the new edition continues to equip teachers-in-training with practical assessment strategies for today's challenges in measuring student progress. This revision includes practical, balanced, and integrated coverage of the many implications of the important and controversial No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. It thoughtfully applies traditional and innovative (e.g., performance and portfolio) assessment practices to help teachers prepare themselves and their students for optimal performance on high-stakes (and high-pressure!) tests. The text also helps teachers contribute to valid, day-day assessment of student progress and develop valid alternative assessments and accommodations appropriate for special education students now included in regular classrooms. Also includes PRAXIS test preparation scenarios and questions that address the use of objective and essay test items to measure higher-order thinking, and the creative and motivational use of performance and portfolio assessments. Text website offers streaming video of the Joint Committee of Testing Practices' The ABCs of School Testing.
Download or read book The ABCs of CBM Second Edition written by Michelle K. Hosp and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: 1. What Is CBM and Why Should I Do It? -- 2. CBM for Assessment and Problem Solving -- 3. How to Conduct Early Reading CBM -- 4. How to Conduct Reading CBM -- 5. How to Conduct Spelling CBM -- 6. How to Conduct Writing CBM -- 7. How to Conduct Early Numeracy CBM -- 8. How to Conduct Math CBM -- 9. How to Conduct Content-Area CBM -- 10. Charting and Graphing Data to Help Make Decisions -- 11. Planning to Use CBM--and Keeping It Going -- Appendix A. Norms for Early Reading CBM, OPR CBM, and Maze CBM -- Appendix B. Reproducible Quick Guides and Forms for Conducting CBM -- References -- Index
Download or read book Testing for Learning written by Ruth Mitchell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance.
Download or read book How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools written by Gerard Giordano and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Educational Testing and Measurement written by Tom Kubiszyn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book School Success for Kids With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders written by Michelle R. Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School Success for Kids With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders gives parents and teachers of students with Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, mood disorders, or other emotional and behavioral disorders the strategies they need to help these kids overcome their struggles and find success in school. Based on the experiences of psychologists and educators working with kids with these disorders, this book provides help for children needing to control their emotional outbursts and strategies to teach kids to monitor, review, and change their behaviors. The chapters cover topics such as managing the classroom, dealing with struggles with homework, choosing from options such as time out or restraint to control behavior, helping kids develop self-advocacy strategies and independence, and planning services and accommodations for these disorders. The book also includes multiple tools for parents and teachers to reproduce and use immediately to help their students with emotional and behavioral problems overcome their challenges.
Download or read book Tests and Teaching Quality written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-05-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving the quality of teaching in elementary and secondary schools is now high on the nation's educational policy agenda. Policy makers at the state and federal levels have focused on initiatives designed to improve the abilities of teachers already in schools and increase the numbers of well-qualified teachers available to fill current and future vacancies. Tests and Teaching Quality is an interim report of a study investigating the technical, educational, and legal issues surrounding the use of tests for licensing teachers. This report focuses on existing tests and their use.
Download or read book Testing Testing written by W. James Popham and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nationally recognized expert on educational testing and assessment explains what the tests your kids are taking really mean--and don't mean--about your children and their education. In this easy-to-read-and-understand book, you'll learn the pros and cons of different kinds of tests and other educational assessments. Dr. Popham teaches readers how to use this knowledge to make a real difference in their children's education.
Download or read book Toward a New Science of Educational Testing and Assessment written by Harold Berlak and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book question the assumptions of the psychometric paradigm that underlie virtually all criterion-referenced and standardized tests used in North American schools. They make a compelling case for a new science of educational testing and assessment, one that shifts decision making from central administration to individual schools and communities. Harold Berlak argues that the concept of tests as scientific instruments validated by technical experts is anachronistic and self-contradictory. He makes a case for a contextual paradigm, an approach which assumes that consensus on educational goals and national testing programs is neither possible nor desireable. Assessment practices in a democratic society must acknowledge and affirm differences in values, beliefs, and material interests among individuals and groups over the purposes and practices of schooling.
Download or read book Making the Classroom Test written by Educational Testing Service and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncommon Measures written by Committee on Equivalency and Linkage of Educational Tests and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-12-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues surrounding the comparability of various tests used to assess performance in schools received broad public attention during congressional debate over the Voluntary National Tests proposed by President Clinton in his 1997 State of the Union Address. Proponents of Voluntary National Tests argue that there is no widely understood, challenging benchmark of individual student performance in 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics, thus the need for a new test. Opponents argue that a statistical linkage among tests already used by states and districts might provide the sort of comparability called for by the president's proposal. Public Law 105-78 requested that the National Research Council study whether an equivalency scale could be developed that would allow test scores from existing commercial tests and state assessments to be compared with each other and with the National Assessment of Education Progress. In this book, the committee reviewed research literature on the statistical and technical aspects of creating valid links between tests and how the content, use, and purposes of education testing in the United States influences the quality and meaning of those links. The book summarizes relevant prior linkage studies and presents a picture of the diversity of state testing programs. It also looks at the unique characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Uncommon Measures provides an answer to the question posed by Congress in Public Law 105-78, suggests criteria for evaluating the quality of linkages, and calls for further research to determine the level of precision needed to make inferences about linked tests. In arriving at its conclusions, the committee acknowledged that ultimately policymakers and educators must take responsibility for determining the degree of imprecision they are willing to tolerate in testing and linking. This book provides science-based information with which to make those decisions.
Download or read book The Perfect Assessment System written by Richard J. Stiggins and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2017 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stiggins offers a bold plan for reforming assessment practice and culture to generate accurate accountability data, improve classroom instruction, and support student learning and well-being.
