Measuring Up : : What Educational Testing Really Tells Us / / Daniel Koretz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Koretz, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; 1. If Only It Were So Simple --; 2. What Is a Test? --; 3. What We Measure: Just How Good Is the Sample? --; 4. The Evolution of American Testing --; 5. What Test Scores Tell Us about American Kids --; 6. What Influences Test Scores, or How Not to Pick a School --; 7. Error and Reliability: How Much We Don't Know What We're Talking About --; 8. Reporting Performance: Standards and Scales --; 9. Validity --; 10. Inflated Test Scores --; 11. Adverse Impact and Bias --; 12. Testing Students with Special N --; 13. Sensible Uses of Tests --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674039728; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674039728?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniel Koretz.

Measuring 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.