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Measuring up : what educational testing really tells us / Daniel Koretz.
LIBRA LB3051 .K667 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koretz, Daniel M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational tests and measurements--United States.
- Educational tests and measurements.
- Test bias.
- United States.
- Test bias--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- If only it were so simple
- What is a test?
- What we measure: just how good is the sample?
- The evolution of American testing
- What test scores tell us about American kids
- What influences test scores, or how not to pick a school
- Error and reliability: how much we don't know what we're talking about
- Reporting performance: standards and scales
- Validity
- Inflated test scores
- Adverse impact and bias
- Testing students with special needs
- Sensible uses of tests.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-343) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674028050
- 0674028058
- OCLC:
- 179801074
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