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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... for entrance to a trade or a profession. Testing has become a routine part of our vocabulary and our public discourse. For many years, Parade magazine has featured a regular column by Marilyn vos If Only It Were So Simple 7.
... for entrance to a trade or a profession. Testing has become a routine part of our vocabulary and our public discourse. For many years, Parade magazine has featured a regular column by Marilyn vos If Only It Were So Simple 7.
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... vocabulary of “IQ”—just one type of a score on one type of standardized test—instead of plain English. The editors of Pa- rade have been justifiably confident that their reference to IQ makes their point, even though very few readers ...
... vocabulary of “IQ”—just one type of a score on one type of standardized test—instead of plain English. The editors of Pa- rade have been justifiably confident that their reference to IQ makes their point, even though very few readers ...
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... vocabulary. How are you going to determine which applicants have par- ticularly strong vocabularies? If you knew the applicants well, you would have some knowledge of their vocabularies based on accumulated experience over many ...
... vocabulary. How are you going to determine which applicants have par- ticularly strong vocabularies? If you knew the applicants well, you would have some knowledge of their vocabularies based on accumulated experience over many ...
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... vocabulary and therefore need to construct one. You would then confront a serious difficulty: although many parents may find this fact remarkable in the light of their own experience, the typi- cal adolescent has a huge working vocabulary ...
... vocabulary and therefore need to construct one. You would then confront a serious difficulty: although many parents may find this fact remarkable in the light of their own experience, the typi- cal adolescent has a huge working vocabulary ...
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... vocabularies, comprising thousands of words. You would have tested perhaps 1 word for each 300 or 400 that the applicants know. It is apparent why performance on the individual items included in this test should not be a focus of ...
... vocabularies, comprising thousands of words. You would have tested perhaps 1 word for each 300 or 400 that the applicants know. It is apparent why performance on the individual items included in this test should not be a focus of ...
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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