Measuring Up : : What Educational Testing Really Tells Us / / 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 hig...
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Koretz, Daniel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Measuring Up : What Educational Testing Really Tells Us / Daniel Koretz. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©2008 1 online resource (363 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) Educational tests and measurements United States. Test bias United States United States. Test bias United States. EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039728?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674039728 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674039728/original |
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