Education: examinations and assessment

This book presents Keystroke Logging as a powerful methodological tool for investigating writers' revision processes in writing.

This book presents Keystroke Logging as a powerful methodological tool for investigating writers' revision processes in writing.

Offering a valuable introduction to those beginning their journey into educational assessment, this book provides both teachers and students insights into the challenging world of designing, implementing, and interpreting classroom assessments.

Offering a valuable introduction to those beginning their journey into educational assessment, this book provides both teachers and students insights into the challenging world of designing, implementing, and interpreting classroom assessments.

Drohnen – einst nur ein Bestandteil von Science-Fiction-Erzählungen – haben sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten zu einem festen Bestandteil moderner Technologie entwickelt.

This edited book brings together leading scholars to share ongoing research on the diffusion of holistic admissions practices around the world.

This edited book brings together leading scholars to share ongoing research on the diffusion of holistic admissions practices around the world.

The debate between holistic and analytical scoring methods in second language assessment has long persisted.

The debate between holistic and analytical scoring methods in second language assessment has long persisted.

This new text provides the most current coverage of measurement and psychometrics in a single volume.

This book investigates the development of language assessment literacy (LAL) among university English instructors in the Chinese context.

This book investigates the development of language assessment literacy (LAL) among university English instructors in the Chinese context.

Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005).

To understand the current moment in school accountability, one must understand the larger contradictions in education politics.

The objective of this book is to advance our understanding of the design, implementation and evaluation of test-driven external accountability policies for improving both academic excellence and equity.

Together, the words technology and assess-ment have different meaning for different people.

Assessment and evaluation have always been an integral part of educational process.

While women have influenced the fields of program evaluation and mixed methods research, their contributions are rarely acknowledged.

This book provides an intuitive and accessible introduction to item response theory (IRT), making complex psychometric concepts easier to grasp through graphical displays and familiar analogies.

Assessment and evaluation have always been an integral part of educational process.

In this book, Ernie House reframes how we think about evaluation by reconsidering three key concepts of values, biases, and practical wisdom.

Inclusive leaders create strong cultures with systems to respond to unique needs and encourage hidden potential.

Inclusive leaders create strong cultures with systems to respond to unique needs and encourage hidden potential.

While women have influenced the fields of program evaluation and mixed methods research, their contributions are rarely acknowledged.

This new text provides the most current coverage of measurement and psychometrics in a single volume.

Evaluation use was identified by Henry and Mark (2003) as being the single most studied area in the field of evaluation.

The impetus for this volume lives in a rich and vibrant past.

This reissued book is one of the key works that influenced and shaped the contemporary evaluation field.

This book traces the journey of two individuals who have spent their lives on both sides of the teacher/professor's desk.

Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning.

Creative problem solving, collaboration, and technology fluency are core skills requisite of any nation's workforce that strives to be competitive in the 21st Century.

Filling in the Blanks is a book dedicated to helping policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers, better understand standardized testing and the Black-White achievement gap.

Assessment and evaluation have always been an integral part of educational process.

edTPA is the most widely-used performance assessment for pre-service teachers in the United States, and a requirement in many states for teaching licensure.

The Race To The Top (RTTP) federal education policy fostered a new generation of state tests.

One of the most important books in the history of psychometrics has been virtually unavailable to scholars and students for decades.

The lives of middle school students are dynamic, and their needs and desires are always evolving.

While women have influenced the fields of program evaluation and mixed methods research, their contributions are rarely acknowledged.

As a consequence of the federal 'No Child Left Behind' (NCLB) law, there is tremendous pressure on school principals, teachers, school superintendents, district staff, state departments of education and governors to maximize the increase in student achievement that is obtained with every dollar of expenditure.

Over the past thirty years, student assessment has become an increasingly important component of public education.

Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment.

While Research on the effectiveness of electronic portfolios for assessment and accreditation is emerging, many who are now using, or who are beginning to use, electronic portfolios are looking to justify the cost and effort involved.

This work integrates the core instructional leadership tasks of all principals: supervision, evaluation, and professional development.

Assessment innovation tied to technology is greatly needed in a wide variety of assessment applications.

The general theme of this book is to present the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in test development.

The impetus for this volume comes from reflecting on many years of experience, successes and failures in development evaluation in Asia and Africa, and from recent work supported by the Rockefeller Foundation on Rethinking, Reshaping, and Reforming Evaluation.