Education: examinations and assessment

The College Instructor's Guide to Writing Test Items: Measuring Student Learning addresses the need for direct and clear guidance on item writing for assessing broad ranges of content in many fields.

Assessment in Educational Therapy offers essential grounding, skills, and ethical approaches for understanding and conducting assessments in the context of educational therapy.

MCAT* Prep from the Name You TrustNo matter how much material you review throughout your preparation for the MCAT, you need the experience of taking a full-length model exam prior to test day.

This book is intended for anyone who is seriously interested in designing and validating multiple-choice test items that measure understanding and the application of knowledge and skills to complex situations, such as critical thinking and problem solving.

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever.

This indispensable book helps PhD candidates to understand the viva process and to prepare and present their work in the best possible manner.

This book brings readers into classrooms and communities to explore critical curriculum issues in the United States throughout the twentieth century by focusing in on the voices of teachers, administrators, students, and families.

Exploring a range of educational developments and practices in different national contexts in Australia, Canada and Switzerland, this book analyses the effectiveness of such initiatives.

In 2006, Paul W.

Thinking critically.

Several decades of psychometric research have led to the development of sophisticated models for multidimensional test data, and in recent years, multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) has become a burgeoning topic in psychological and educational measurement.

This book presents an international range of conversation analytic (CA) studies of classroom interaction which all discuss their empirical findings in terms of their theoretical and methodological contribution to the field of second language studies and their potential pedagogical relevance.

This special issue was motivated by the move from research to operations for computerized delivery and scoring of complex constructed response items.

This edited collection of presentations by major speakers at AAHE's 1999 and 2000 Assessment Conferences offers cutting-edge ideas from: Jorge Klor de Alva; Noel Entwistle; James Anderson; Victor Borden; Jean MacGregor, Vincent Tinto, Jerri Holland Lindblad; Barbara Wright; and others.

This book provides an introduction to test equating, scaling and linking, including those concepts and practical issues that are critical for developers and all other testing professionals.

Demystifying Scholarly Metrics gives librarians and faculty the confidence to navigate the maze of scholarly metrics, identify quality journals in which to publish, and measure the impact of scholarly works.

Published in association with While higher education has rarely employed ROI methodology-focusing more on balancing its revenue streams, such as federal, state, and local appropriations, tuition, and endowments with its costs-the rapid growth of online education and the history of how it has evolved, with its potential for institutional transformation and as a major source of revenue, as well as its need for substantial and long-term investment, makes the use of ROI an imperative.

Assessment has become one of the most significant areas of interest in educational policy development, as well as the focus of complex political, economic and cultural expectations for change.

The right kinds of tests, correctly applied, can help every teacher become a better teacher.

This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills.

This book presents the results of a four-year, National Science Foundation-funded project that engaged nine high school biology teachers at three public high schools in long-term, on-site professional development program centered on a learning progression.

Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning: Quantitative Methods and Outcomes provides a how-to guide to choosing, using, and understanding quantitative longitudinal research and sampling methods in second and foreign language learning.

High-stakes testing.

In a context where schools are held more and more accountable for the education they provide, data-based decision making has become increasingly important.

Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years, and have used the results for many purposes.

This volume consists of a series of essays written by experts, most of whom participated in a conference conducted by the Educational Testing Service to explore how current fields of artificial intelligence might contribute to ETS's plans to automate one or more of its testing activities.

When you want to raise your SAT score but don't want to work through hundreds of pages of subject reviews, here's a straightforward, step-by-step approach for fast and fun mastery of SAT skillsSAT DeMYSTiFieD takes the mystery out of studying for the SAT by walking you step-by-step through the fundamentals of the subject.

This book asks how we might conceptualise, design for and evaluate the impact of feedback in higher education.

Simple.

Evaluators have always worked in diverse communities, and the programs they evaluate are designed to address often intractable socio-political and economic issues.

This collection, now in paperback, explores how universities are coping with the range of reforms and changes taking place across higher education today.

Regionalisierung zählt zu den bildungspolitischen Vorzeigeprojekten in Deutschland.

Get the only official guide to the GRE(R) revised General Test that comes straight from the test makers!

Although Y2K did not result in major disruptions, the event is a rich source of critical lessons for strategic management of information and communication technology (ICT), many of which apply to large organizations today.

The second edition of this textbook provides expanded and updated guidance on the process of psychoeducational assessment and report writing for children in grades K-12.

As a teacher, what you want most is for your students to learn-to immerse themselves in rich and challenging content and leave your classroom better prepared for school and life.

Fairness in educational assessment has become a major talking point and allegations that assessments are unfair are commonplace on social media and in the press.

Issues of access, social exclusion and widening participation dominate educational policy agendas and are a shared global challenge.

This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement.

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an important part of the OECD's Indicator Programme.

American higher education needs a major reframing of student learning outcomes assessment Dynamic changes are underway in American higher education.

This book consists of 13 papers developed by participants in the ICME 13 Topic Study Group 40 on Classroom Assessment.

This book presents an integrated and coordinated framework for assessing developmental, psychological, and behavioral disorders in early childhood.

At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path?

Cases of Teachers' Data Use addresses applications of student data beyond theoretical, school-, and district-level examinations by presenting case studies of teachers' data use in practice.

Classroom Data Tracking for grade 1 is a 160-page customizable resource that will transform how you track data and set goals in your classroom.

Dyslexia in Adolescence: Global Perspectives presents international case studies on the psychosocial development and academic progress of adolescents with dyslexia to enhance understanding of adjustment factors, outcomes and support.