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Testing and standards : a brief encyclopedia / Sandra Wilde.
LIBRA LB3051 .W4966 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilde, Sandra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational tests and measurements--United States--Encyclopedias.
- Educational tests and measurements.
- Education--Standards--United States--Encyclopedias.
- Education.
- Education--Standards.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- Physical Description:
- x, 110 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2002]
- Summary:
- Whats the difference between a norm-referenced and a criterion-referenced test? If newspapers say only 50% of kids are reading at grade level, should you be worried? When does getting kids ready to take tests cross the line into cheating?
- Contents:
- Accountability (consumers, taxpayers, and citizens)
- Authenticity in assessment
- Carrot and stick (standards, testing, and motivation)
- Criterion- and norm-referenced tests
- Curriculum alignment
- Emotional aspects of testing
- Equity
- Essential readings
- Ethics
- Gain scores and value added
- Grade level
- Group versus individual assessment
- High stakes
- How much do tests cost?
- Internet resources
- Knowing something versus answering test questions
- Lake Wobegon effect
- The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
- Passing (cutoff) scores
- Percentiles and stanines
- Politics of testing
- Professional organizations
- Reading comprehension assessment
- Reliability
- SAT tests
- Spelling assessment (as an exemplar of broader issues)
- Standard deviation
- Standardized
- Standards
- Test security
- Test specifications
- Testing teachers
- Validity
- What should an educated person know?
- Where do we go from here?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-104)
- ISBN:
- 0325003602
- OCLC:
- 49350527
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