Measuring UpMeasuring Up demystifies educational testing - from MCAS to SAT to WAIS. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education. |
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... Assessment of the National Research Council, of which I was then a member. She complained that her bosses—some of the most prominent CEOs in America engaged in education ... testing seems so misleadingly simple because for those of us raised ...
... Assessment of the National Research Council, of which I was then a member. She complained that her bosses—some of the most prominent CEOs in America engaged in education ... testing seems so misleadingly simple because for those of us raised ...
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... tests and test scores, many of which ul- timately rest on a single principle: don't treat “her score on the test” as ... Assessment of Educational Progress, of- ten simply labeled NAEP (pronounced “nape”), which is widely considered the ...
... tests and test scores, many of which ul- timately rest on a single principle: don't treat “her score on the test” as ... Assessment of Educational Progress, of- ten simply labeled NAEP (pronounced “nape”), which is widely considered the ...
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... tests can signal that something is wrong, and in today's world, a particularly ... Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) to evaluate schools, and high-school ... Educational Progress.2 This is not a problem specific to Texas; similar ...
... tests can signal that something is wrong, and in today's world, a particularly ... Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) to evaluate schools, and high-school ... Educational Progress.2 This is not a problem specific to Texas; similar ...
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... learning. These complications do not always have simple, unambiguous resolutions. Years ago, a prominent and very thoughtful education reformer came to a meeting of the National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment, the same ...
... learning. These complications do not always have simple, unambiguous resolutions. Years ago, a prominent and very thoughtful education reformer came to a meeting of the National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment, the same ...
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Daniel M Koretz. ing tasks to an assessment may extend the range of skills you can assess, but at the cost of making ... schools or the preparation of our workforce—simply want to make sensible use of scores. To what extent is it really ...
Daniel M Koretz. ing tasks to an assessment may extend the range of skills you can assess, but at the cost of making ... schools or the preparation of our workforce—simply want to make sensible use of scores. To what extent is it really ...
Contents
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Just How Good Is the Sample? | 35 |
4 The Evolution of American Testing | 46 |
5 What Test Scores Tell Us about American Kids | 74 |
6 What Influences Test Scores or How Not to Pick a School | 113 |
How Much We Dont Know What Were Talking About | 143 |
9 Validity | 215 |
10 Inflated Test Scores | 235 |
11 Adverse Impact and Bias | 260 |
12 Testing Students with Special Needs | 281 |
13 Sensible Uses of Tests | 315 |
Notes | 335 |
Acknowledgments | 345 |
Index | 347 |
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