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| educational measurement issues and practice: Educational Measurement Craig S. Wells, Molly Faulkner-Bond, 2016-04-26 This book introduces and explores major topics in contemporary educational measurement: criterion-referenced testing, item response theory (IRT), computer-based testing, cross-lingual and cross-cultural assessment, and accountability testing. Psychometric experts describe forward-looking measurement practices and provide a contextualized understanding of how and why they were developed, how they can be used, and where they may go in the future. In addition to presenting key concepts and formulas, the volume covers established and emerging applications and discusses recurrent challenges that require additional research. A helpful glossary of abbreviations is included. The book is grounded in the work of Ronald K. Hambleton. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement Susan M. Brookhart, James H. McMillan, 2019-07-04 Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement explores the ways in which the theory and practice of both educational measurement and the assessment of student learning in classroom settings mutually inform one another. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts consider the nature of classroom assessment information, from student achievement to affective and socio-emotional attributes; how teachers interpret and work with assessment results; and emerging issues in assessment such as digital technologies and diversity/inclusion. This book uniquely considers the limitations of applying large-scale educational measurement theory to classroom assessment and the adaptations necessary to make this transfer useful. Researchers, graduate students, industry professionals, and policymakers will come away with an essential understanding of how the classroom assessment context is essential to broadening contemporary educational measurement perspectives. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Getting Value Out of Value-Added National Academy of Education, National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Education, Committee on Value-Added Methodology for Instructional Improvement, Program Evaluation, and Educational Accountability, 2010-01-25 Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance. In recent years, these methods have attracted considerable attention because of their potential applicability for educational accountability, teacher pay-for-performance systems, school and teacher improvement, program evaluation, and research. Value-added methods involve complex statistical models applied to test data of varying quality. Accordingly, there are many technical challenges to ascertaining the degree to which the output of these models provides the desired estimates. Despite a substantial amount of research over the last decade and a half, overcoming these challenges has proven to be very difficult, and many questions remain unanswered-at a time when there is strong interest in implementing value-added models in a variety of settings. The National Research Council and the National Academy of Education held a workshop, summarized in this volume, to help identify areas of emerging consensus and areas of disagreement regarding appropriate uses of value-added methods, in an effort to provide research-based guidance to policy makers who are facing decisions about whether to proceed in this direction. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Educational Assessment of Students Anthony J. Nitko, Susan M. Brookhart, 2007 From two of the best known authors in the field of classroom assessment comes a revision of one of the best assessment books. Features include hundreds of examples, directions for crafting both traditional and alternative assessments, checklists for evaluating classroom assessments, scores of strategies for assessing problem solving and critical thinking, methods for aligning classroom assessment with state standards and NCLB requirements. Reviewers have described the book as the best on the market for its completeness and balanced approach to classroom assessment. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Educational Assessment of Students Anthony J. Nitko, 2004 A highly-respected book in its field,The Educational Assessment of Students 4/e is the most thorough discussion of traditional and alternative assessments of any text-explaining, giving practical real-world examples, discussing pros and cons, and showing how to construct virtually all of the choices teachers can make in classroom assessment. Theories and research findings abound; the author examines why, when, and how teachers should use assessment in the classroom. Topics include: the bases for assessment in the classroom, crafting and using classroom assessments, and interpreting and using standardized tests. With its extensive and valuable appendix set, this book is a must-have desk reference for teachers and others involved in the field of education. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Online Assessment and Measurement Mary Hricko, Scott L. Howell, 2006-01-01 This book explores the development of online assessment and the way practitioners of online learning can modify their methodologies in the design, development, and delivery of their instruction to best accommodate their participants--Provided by publisher. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Educational Measurement Robert L. Brennan, 2023-10-03 Educational Measurement has been the bible in its field since the first edition was published by ACE in 1951. The importance of this fourth edition of Educational Measurement is to extensively update and extend the topics treated in the previous three editions. As such, the fourth edition documents progress in the field and provides critical guidance to the efforts of new generations of researchers and practitioners. Edited by Robert Brennan and jointly sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the National Council on Measurement in Education, the fourth edition provides in-depth treatments of critical measurement topics, and the chapter authors are acknowledged experts in their respective fields. Educational measurement researchers and practitioners will find this text essential, and those interested in statistics, psychology, business, and economics should also find this work to be of very strong interest. Topics covered are divided into three subject areas: theory and general principles; construction, administration, and scoring; and applications. The first part of the book covers the topics of validation, reliability, item response theory, scaling and norming, linking and equating, test fairness, and cognitive psychology. Part two includes chapters on test development, test administration, performance assessment, setting performance standards, and technology in testing. The final section includes chapters on second language testing, testing for accountability in K-12 schools, standardized assessment of individual achievement in K-12 schools, higher education admissions testing, monitoring educational progress, licensure and certification testing, and legal and ethical issues. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Measurement Issues and Assessment for Teaching Quality Drew H. Gitomer, 2009 A comprehensive text that allows headteachers and school mamangers to monitor teacher quality |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Educational Assessment Robert J. Wright, 2008 Educational Tests and Measurements in the Age of Accountability is a core text for use in a first level graduate course in educational measurement and testing. In addition to covering the topics traditionally found in core textbooks for this course, this text also provides coverage of contemporary topics (including national testing programs, international achievement comparisons, the value added assessment of schools and teachers, and the public policy debate on selective admissions vs. affirmative minority enrollment). |
| educational measurement issues and practice: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation Bruce B. Frey, 2018-01-29 This encyclopedia is the first major reference guide for students new to the field, covering traditional areas while pointing the way to future developments. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Educational Testing and Measurement Tom Kubiszyn, Gary D. Borich, 1987 |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Generalizability Theory Robert L. Brennan, 2001-08-09 Generalizability theory offers an extensive conceptual framework and a powerful set of statistical procedures for characterizing and quantifying the fallibility of measurements. Robert Brennan, the author, has written the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of generalizability theory. The book provides a synthesis of those parts of the statistical literature that are directly applicable to generalizability theory. The principal intended audience is measurement practitioners and graduate students in the behavioral and social sciences, although a few examples and references are provided from other fields. Readers will benefit from some familiarity with classical test theory and analysis of variance, but the treatment of most topics does not presume specific background. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Knowing What Students Know National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Education, Board on Testing and Assessment, Committee on the Foundations of Assessment, 2001-10-27 Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Improving Large-scale Assessment in Education Marielle Simon, Kadriye Ercikan, Michel Rousseau, 2013 This book focuses on central issues that are key components of successful planning, development and implementation of LSAs. The book's main distinction is its focus on practice- based, cutting-edge research. This is achieved by having chapters co-authored by world-class researchers in collaboration with measurement practitioners. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Educational Assessment of Students Anthony J. Nitko, Susan M. Brookhart, 2013-11-01 For a wide variety of courses in classroom assessment. This highly respected text offers the most comprehensive discussion of traditional and alternative assessments of any classroom assessment text-explaining, giving examples, discussing pros and cons, and showing how to construct virtually all of the traditional and alternative assessments teachers use in the classroom. The author explores assessment theories and research findings as they affect teaching and learning, and examines why, when, and how teachers should use assessment in the classroom. To the text's hundreds of practical examples are added checklists to aid in evaluating assessment vehicles and scores of strategies for assessing higher-order thinking, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Social Justice and Educational Measurement Zachary Stein, 2016-03-31 Social Justice and Educational Measurement addresses foundational concerns at the interface of standardized testing and social justice in American schools. Following John Rawls’s philosophical methods, Stein builds and justifies an ethical framework for guiding practices involving educational measurement. This framework demonstrates that educational measurement can both inhibit and ensure just educational arrangements. It also clarifies a principled distinction between efficiency-oriented testing and justice-oriented testing. Through analysis of several historical case studies that exemplify ethical issues related to testing, this book explores and propounds speculative design principles and arguments in favour of radically democratic school reforms, which address how the future of testing might be shaped to ensure justice for all. These case studies cover the widespread use of IQ-style testing in schools during the early decades of the 20th century; the founding of the Educational Testing Service; and the recent history of test-based accountability associated with No Child Left Behind. Social Justice and Educational Measurement will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in education, testing and assessment, and the philosophy of education. It will also be of interest to policymakers and educational administrators. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Preparing Students for College and Careers Katie Larsen McClarty, Krista D. Mattern, Matthew N. Gaertner, 2017-08-22 Preparing Students for College and Careers addresses measurement and research issues related to college and career readiness. Educational reform efforts across the United States have increasingly taken aim at measuring and improving postsecondary readiness. These initiatives include developing new content standards, redesigning assessments and performance levels, legislating new developmental education policy for colleges and universities, and highlighting gaps between graduates’ skills and employers’ needs. In this comprehensive book, scholarship from leading experts on each of these topics is collected for assessment professionals and for education researchers interested in this new area of focus. Cross-disciplinary chapters cover the current state of research, best practices, leading interventions, and a variety of measurement concepts, including construct definitions, assessments, performance levels, score interpretations, and test uses. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Classroom Assessment Lorin W. Anderson, 2003-02-26 This book is based on the belief that decision making is perhaps the most critical of all teaching skills and that good assessments lie at the core of good decision making. To become better teachers then, teachers must learn to make informed decisions about both individual students (learning decisions) and about groups of students (teaching decisions). This book gives equal status to both types of decisions and shows how assessment is integral to both. The organization of the book is sequential, mirroring the way in which information should be used to make decisions. It begins with a conceptual framework linking information to decision making, then moves to the design of assessment instruments and the collection of assessment information, then to the interpretation of assessment information and, finally, to reporting the results of both the assessment and the decision-making process. There is an emphasis throughout on linking why teachers assess with what and how they assess. Other key features include: * Practical Framework -- The book's framework corresponds to the framework that teachers use to grade their students: conduct (classroom behavior), effort (student motivation), and achievement (student learning). * Unique Chapters -- There are separate chapters on interpreting assessment information prior to decision making and on reporting assessment information to parents, teachers, and administrators. * Flexibility -- Because of its modest length and price, and its practical focus on the links between assessment and everyday teacher decision making, this text can be used either in full-length assessment courses for teachers or to teach the assessment units in educational psychology or integrated methods courses. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education Charles Secolsky, D. Brian Denison, 2017-07-31 In this valuable resource, well-known scholars present a detailed understanding of contemporary theories and practices in the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation, with guidance on how to apply these ideas for the benefit of students and institutions. Bringing together terminology, analytical perspectives, and methodological advances, this second edition facilitates informed decision-making while connecting the latest thinking in these methodological areas with actual practice in higher education. This research handbook provides higher education administrators, student affairs personnel, institutional researchers, and faculty with an integrated volume of theory, method, and application. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Essentials of Educational Measurement Robert L. Ebel, 1972 |
| educational measurement issues and practice: SAGE Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment James H. McMillan, 2013 The Sage Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment provides scholars, professors, graduate students, and other researchers and policy makers in the organizations, agencies, testing companies, and school districts with a comprehensive source of research on all aspects of K-12 classroom assessment. The handbook emphasizes theory, conceptual frameworks, and all varieties of research (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods) to provide an in-depth understanding of the knowledge base in each area of classroom assessment and how to conduct inquiry in the area. It presents classroom assessment research to convey, in depth, the state of knowledge and understanding that is represented by the research, with particular emphasis on how classroom assessment practices affect student achieventment and teacher behavior. Editor James H. McMillan and five Associate Editors bring the best thinking and analysis from leading classroom assessment researchers on the nature of the research, making significant contributions to this prominent and hotly debated topic in education. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, National Council on Measurement in Education, Joint Committee on Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (U.S.), 2014 Prepared by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educatioanl and Psychological Testing of the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education--T.p. verso. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Assessment Essentials for Standards-Based Education James H. McMillan, 2008-04-16 This revised edition shows educators how to integrate assessment with teaching and learning and offers new chapters that discuss a variety of assessment and grading techniques. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: The Wiley Handbook of Cognition and Assessment Andre A. Rupp, Jacqueline P. Leighton, 2016-11-21 This state-of-the-art resource brings together the most innovative scholars and thinkers in the field of testing to capture the changing conceptual, methodological, and applied landscape of cognitively-grounded educational assessments. Offers a methodologically-rigorous review of cognitive and learning sciences models for testing purposes, as well as the latest statistical and technological know-how for designing, scoring, and interpreting results Written by an international team of contributors at the cutting-edge of cognitive psychology and educational measurement under the editorship of a research director at the Educational Testing Service and an esteemed professor of educational psychology at the University of Alberta as well as supported by an expert advisory board Covers conceptual frameworks, modern methodologies, and applied topics, in a style and at a level of technical detail that will appeal to a wide range of readers from both applied and scientific backgrounds Considers emerging topics in cognitively-grounded assessment, including applications of emerging socio-cognitive models, cognitive models for human and automated scoring, and various innovative virtual performance assessments |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Sociocognitive Foundations of Educational Measurement Robert J. Mislevy, 2018-04-09 Several key developments challenge the field of educational measurement today: demands for tests at larger scales with higher stakes, an improved understanding of how people develop capabilities, and new technologies for interactive digital assessments. Sociocognitive Foundations of Educational Measurement integrates new developments in educational measurement and educational psychology in order to provide researchers, testing professionals, and students with an innovative sociocognitive perspective on assessment. This comprehensive volume begins with a broad explanation of the sociocognitive perspective and the foundations of assessment, then provides a series of focused applications to major topics such as assessment arguments, validity, fairness, interactive assessment, and a conception of measurement in educational assessment. Classical test theory, item response theory, categorical models, mixture models, cognitive diagnosis models, and Bayesian networks are explored from the resulting perspective. Ideal for specialists in these areas, graduate students, developers, and scholars in both educational measurement and fields that contribute to a sociocognitive perspective, this book consolidates nearly a decade of research into a fresh perspective on educational measurement. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Fairness in Educational Assessment and Measurement Neil J. Dorans, Linda L. Cook, 2016-09-19 The importance of fairness, validity, and accessibility in assessment is greater than ever as testing expands to include more diverse populations, more complex purposes, and more sophisticated technologies. This book offers a detailed account of fairness in assessment, and illustrates the interplay between assessment and broader changes in education. In 16 chapters written by leading experts, this volume explores the philosophical, technical, and practical questions surrounding fair measurement. Fairness in Educational Assessment and Measurement addresses issues pertaining to the construction, administration, and scoring of tests, the comparison of performance across test takers, grade levels and tests, and the uses of educational test scores. Perfect for researchers and professionals in test development, design, and administration, Fairness in Educational Assessment and Measurement presents a diverse array of perspectives on this topic of enduring interest. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Meeting the Challenges to Measurement in an Era of Accountability Henry Braun, 2016-01-29 Under pressure and support from the federal government, states have increasingly turned to indicators based on student test scores to evaluate teachers and schools, as well as students themselves. The focus thus far has been on test scores in those subject areas where there is a sequence of consecutive tests, such as in mathematics or English/language arts with a focus on grades 4-8. Teachers in these subject areas, however, constitute less than thirty percent of the teacher workforce in a district. Comparatively little has been written about the measurement of achievement in the other grades and subjects. This volume seeks to remedy this imbalance by focusing on the assessment of student achievement in a broad range of grade levels and subject areas, with particular attention to their use in the evaluation of teachers and schools in all. It addresses traditional end-of-course tests, as well as alternative measures such as portfolios, exhibitions, and student learning objectives. In each case, issues related to design and development, psychometric considerations, and validity challenges are covered from both a generic and a content-specific perspective. The NCME Applications of Educational Measurement and Assessment series includes edited volumes designed to inform research-based applications of educational measurement and assessment. Edited by leading experts, these books are comprehensive and practical resources on the latest developments in the field. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Systemic Racism and Educational Measurement Michael Russell, 2023-08-18 Systemic Racism and Educational Measurement provides a theoretical and historical reckoning with racism and oppression produced through educational measurement and research methodology. As scholars and professionals in the testing, measurement, and assessment of human learning and performance work to exorcise race sciences, white supremacy, and other injustices from the field’s research and practice, new insights are needed into their root causes. This book is the first to posit that the theory of the White Racial Frame was and continues to be applied to the foundations, process, dissemination, and use of educational measurement, leading to instruments, findings, and decisions that perpetuate the racialized social structure of our nation. Even among well-meaning stakeholders who aim to improve humanity and address inequities, the White Racial Frame shapes the field’s research questions, the methods utilized, the data valued, the interpretations made, and the language used throughout. Students and scholars of educational measurement, testing, and psychometrics will find invaluable clarifications of terminology, concepts, and theories integral to understanding systemic barriers in the field; explications of educational measurement’s core purposes and its influence by the White Racial Frame; and a series of alternate frames, theories, and epistemologies intended to guide educational measurement toward anti-racism and increased fairness. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Assessment In The Classroom George Cunnningham, 2005-08-09 Educational assessment, at one time a relatively uncontroversial subject, is now riven by a diversity of views. The most crucial division is between those who continue to believe in the effectiveness of objective assessment techniques and those who favour alternative methods. This book presents an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses and rationales for both. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Fairness in Educational and Psychological Testing: Examining Theoretical, Research, Practice, and Policy Implications of the 2014 Standards Jessica L. Jonson, Kurt F. Geisinger, 2022-06-01 This book examines scholarship, best practice methodologies, and examples of policy and practice from various professional fields in education and psychology to illuminate the elevated emphasis on test fairness in the 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. Together, the chapters provide a survey of critical and current issues with a view to broadening and contextualizing the fairness guidelines for different types of tests, test takers, and testing contexts. Researchers and practitioners from school psychology, clinical/counseling psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, and education will find the content useful in thinking more acutely about fairness in testing in their work. The book also has chapters that address implications for policy makers, and, in some cases, the public. These discussions are offered as a starting point for future scholarship on the theoretical, empirical, and applied aspects of fairness in testing particularly given the ever-increasing importance of addressing equity in testing. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Practical Language Testing Glenn Fulcher, 2013-11-26 Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests. This intensely practical book gives guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom, and provides the necessary tools to analyse and improve assessments, as well as deal with alignment to externally imposed standards. Testing is situated both within the classroom and within the larger social context, and readers are provided the knowledge necessary to make realistic and fair decisions about the use and implementation of tests. The book explains the normative role of large scale testing and provides alternatives that the reader can adapt to their own context. This fulfils the dual purpose of providing the reader with the knowledge they need to prepare learners for tests, and the practical skills for using assessment for learning. Practical Language Testing is the ideal introduction for students of applied linguistics, TESOL and modern foreign language teaching as well as practicing teachers required to design or implement language testing programmes. The book is supported by frequently updated online resources at http://languagetesting.info/ including sets of scenarios providing resources to study aviation English assessment, call centre assessment, military language assessment, and medical language assessment. The materials can be used to structure debates and seminars, with pre-reading and video activities. Practical Language Testing was commended as a 2012 runner-up of the prestigious SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Problems and Solutions in Human Assessment Richard D. Goffin, Edward Helmes, 2012-12-06 The assessment of individual differences has generated shockwaves affecting sociology, education, and a number of other behavioral sciences as well as the fields of management and organizational behavior. In covering the assessment of individual differences, this book pays tribute to the interests and activities that Douglas N. Jackson has incorporated into his career as a psychologist. He continues to be a leader in putting academic findings to practical use. He has also inspired generations of students with his mastery of complex concepts and as a personal example of the ability to balance several simultaneous areas of research. Consistent with the focus of Jackson's research, the theme of this book will be how the use of deductive, construct-driven strategies in the assessment of individual differences leads to benefits in terms of the applicability of the assessment instruments and the clarity of the conclusions that can be drawn from the research. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Handbook of Academic Learning Gary D. Phye, 1997-01-08 The Handbook of Academic Learning provides a comprehensive resource for educational and cognitive psychologists, as well as educators themselves, on the mechanisms and processes of academic learning. Beginning with general themes that cross subject and age level, the book discusses what motivates students to learn and how knowledge can be made personal for better learning and remembering. Individual chapters identify proven effective teaching methods for the specific domains of math, reading, writing, science, and critical problem solving, how students learn within those domains, and how learning can be accurately assessed for given domains and age levels. The Handbook takes a constructivist perspective to academic learning, emphasizing the construction of personal knowledge of an academic nature. Constructivism within the context of learning theory is viewed as involving an active learner that constructs an academic knowledge base through the development of cognitive strategies and metacognition. The book discusses the development of basic literacy skills that provide the foundation for higher order thinking and problem solving. Constructivism recognizes the social dimension of classroom learning and emphasizes the motivational elements of self-regulation and volition as essential learner characteristics. Written by authors who have first-hand experience with both theory development and the development of authentic classroom instructional techniques, the Handbook empowers educators to develop, implement, and field-test authentic instructional practices at their school site. The book provides a review of the literature, theory, research, and skill techniques for effective teaching and learning. - Identifies effective teaching with specific techniques - Covers elementary school through high school - Discusses teaching methods for all main subject areas: reading, writing, math, science, and critical thinking - Identifies how students learn to learn - Reviews theory, research, techniques, and assessment - Contains field tested examples for the educational professional at the school site - Provides a resource for staff development |
| educational measurement issues and practice: 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook Stephen F. Davis, William Buskist, 2008 Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates in the field of psychology. Provides material of interest for students from all corners of psychological studies, whether their interests be in the biological, cognitive, developmental, social, or clinical arenas. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: The Future of Test-Based Educational Accountability Katherine Ryan, Lorrie Shepard, 2010-03-17 In recent decades testing has become a much more visible and high-stakes accountability mechanism that is now seen as a powerful tool that can be used to drive school improvement. The purpose of this book is to identify and analyze the key issues associated with test-based educational accountability and to chart the future of educational accountability research. Chapter contributions are intended to be forward looking rather than a compendium of what has happened in the past. The book provides an accessible discussion of issues such as validity, test equating, growth modeling, fairness for special populations, causal inferences, and misuses of accountability data. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Historical Foundations of Educational Psychology John A. Glover, Royce R. Ronning, 2013-11-11 This volume represents a beginning effort to compile a history of educational psychology The project began, innocuously enough, several years ago when we decided to add mon material about the history of educational psychology to the undergraduate course we were teaching. What seemed like a simple task became very complex as we searched in vain for a volume dealing with the topic. We ended up drawing on various histories of psychology that devoted anywhere from a few paragraphs to several pages to the topic and on a very few articles addressing the issue. We were startled, frankly, by the apparent lack of interest in the history of our field and decided to attempt to compile a history ourselves. As is the case with any edited volume, the contributing authors deserve credit for its positive features. They uniformly made every effort asked of them and taught us much about educational psychology. Any errors or omissions are our responsibility alone. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: The History of Educational Measurement Brian E. Clauser, Michael B. Bunch, 2021-07-07 The History of Educational Measurement collects essays on the most important topics in educational testing, measurement, and psychometrics. Authored by the field’s top scholars, this book offers unique historical viewpoints, from origins to modern applications, of formal testing programs and mental measurement theories. Topics as varied as large-scale testing, validity, item-response theory, federal involvement, and notable assessment controversies complete a survey of the field’s greatest challenges and most important achievements. Graduate students, researchers, industry professionals, and other stakeholders will find this volume relevant for years to come. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Large-scale Assessment Programs for All Students Gerald Tindal, Thomas M. Haladyna, 2012-12-06 The need for a comprehensive volume that reviews both the processes and issues involved in developing, administering, and validating large-scale assessment programs has never been greater. These programs are used for many purposes, including instructional program evaluation, promotion, certification, graduation, and accountability. One of the greatest problems we face is how to deal with special needs and bilingual populations. Examining these processes and issues is the mission of this book. It is organized into the following five sections: Introduction, Validity Issues, Technical Issues, Implementation Issues, and Epilogue. Each chapter follows a common structure: Overview of critical issues, review of relevant research, descriptions of current assessment methodologies, and recommendations for the future research and practice. Written by nationally recognized scholars,Large-Scale Assessment Programs for All Students: Validity, Technical Adequacy, and Implementation will appeal to anyone seriously involved in large scale testing, including educators, policymakers, testing company personnel, and researchers in education, psychology, and public policy. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: Developing Standards-Based Report Cards Thomas R. Guskey, Jane M. Bailey, 2010 Providing a clear framework, this volume helps school leaders align assessment and reporting practices with standards-based education and develop more detailed reports of children's learning and progress. |
| educational measurement issues and practice: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded) Stephen Jay Gould, 2006-06-17 The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes. |
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Michael R. Peabody - University of Kentucky
Educational Measurement: Issues & Practice. 42(3), 5-12. [PDF] Peabody, M.R. (2023). Comparison of software platforms for ATA with mixed integer linear programming [software review]. …
A Century of Grading Research - edmeasurement.net
Measurement, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, ProQuest’s Periodicals Index Online, and the Journal of Educational Research. The criterion for inclusion was that the research …
CURRICULUM VITAE Derek C. Briggs - University of Colorado …
Educational Measurement: Issues & Practice, 28(4), 3-14. 14. Domingue, B. W. & Briggs, D. C. (2009) Using linear regression and propensity score matching to estimate the effect of coaching …
The Impact of Classroom Evaluation Practices on Students
drawn together to identify implications for effective educational practice. For the purposes of this review, classroom evaluation is defined as evaluation based on activities that students undertake …
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EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT: ISSUES AND PRACTICE (ISSN 0731-1745 print; ISSN 1745-3992 online), is published quarterly on behalf of the National Council on Measurement in Education by …
Standards-Based Scoring and Traditional Grading Practices
Educational Measurement: Issues & Practice, 9(4), 30-32. Author KAREN MAUCK CICMANEC, Ph.D., is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading, Special Education, and …
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN INSTRUMENT TO …
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Measurement Issues in the Alignment of Standards and …
Measurement Issues in the Alignment of Standards and Assessments: A Case Study CSE Report 653 ... Project 2.3 Indicators of Classroom Practice and Alignment—Strand 1: Methodological Issues …
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theory. Analyses revealed measurement difficulties that resulted in a greater ability to assess less favorable perspectives on school climate. Differential item functioning analyses indicated …
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Appropriateness of Teachers' Test-Preparation Practices
12 Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice . achievement tests. An educational achievement test is employed in order for us to make a reasonable inference about an examinee’s sta- tus with …
Preparation for College Admission Exams - ed
and the public about current issues in college admission. ... Examples of his research interests in the area of educational measurement include 1) evaluating the use of developmental (i.e., vertical) …
Automated Essay Scoring With e-rater V
E-rater® has been used by the Educational Testing Service for automated essay scoring since 1999. This paper describes a new version of e-rater (V.2) that is different from other ... In practice, …
Test, measurement, and evaluation: Understanding and …
during the teaching process. More specifically, concepts of test, measurement, and evaluation continue to dominate educational practice around the world. Though several scholars have …
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Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice. 2017;36(1):5–13. Grabovsky I, Wainer H. A guide for setting the cut-scores to minimize weighted classification errors in test batteries.Journal of …
CURRICULUM VITAE Derek C. Briggs
Educational Measurement: Issues & Practice, 28(4), 3-14. 26. Domingue, B. W. & Briggs, D. C. (2009) Using linear regression and propensity score matching to estimate the effect of coaching …
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5 Polikoff, M. S. (2019). Gauging the revised California School Dashboard: Evidence from the 2019 PACE/USC Rossier voter poll. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University.
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Educational Measurement ...
other AI applications in educational measurement. Ethical concerns have motivated different stakeholders, including educators, researchers, assessment specialists, and policymakers, to …
Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement
and practice of both educational measurement and the assessment of student learning in class - room settings mutually inform one another. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts …
Designing Knowledge-In-Use Assessments to Promote Deeper …
Council’s (NRC) Framework for K-12 Science Education (NRC, 2012) and instantiated in the knowledge-in-use learning goals of the NGSS. Since the 2013 release of the new standards, 19 …
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choice item-writing rules, Applied Measurement in Education. pp. 37-50. General Item-Writing (procedural) 1. Use either the best answer or the correct answer format. 2. Avoid the complex …
The Challenges of Standards-Based Grading
Secondary Teachers of Academic Subjects: Implications for Instruction in Measurement.” Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice 12, no. 3 (1993): 23-30. Friedman, S. J. and D. A. …
S-061: Statistical and Psychometric Methods for Educational …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 57(3), 373-399. (reserves) September 28 & 30 – Class 8 & 9: Introduction to Item Response Theory Central reading: 1) Harris, D. (1989). …
How Can Impact Measurement and Evaluation in Teaching?
measurement, i.e. the same set of instruments cannot be applied to different types of individuals. The application of the principles of measurement in the field of education is known as …
Redalyc.La evaluación de las consecuencias del uso de los …
Title: Redalyc.La evaluación de las consecuencias del uso de los tests en la teoría de la validez Author: Padilla, José Luis; Gómez, Juana; Hidalgo, María Dolores; Muñiz, José
Fairness in Educational Assessment - B.K.B. College
This volume on Fairness in Educational Assessment and Measurement, sponsored by the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), provides a thorough and comprehensive …
ITEM RESPONSE THEORY: A TOOL FOR EDUCATION …
theories as models are important to the practice of educational and psychological measurement because they provide a framework for conceding issues and addressing technical problems. …
S-061: Statistical and Psychometric Methods for Educational …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 57(3), 373-399. (reserves) September 23 – Class 7: Scaling and Item Response Theory . 1) Harris, D. (1989). Comparison of 1 -, 2 , and 3 parameter …
Generalizability Theory: An Analysis of Variance Approach to ...
1992 Brennan provided a very brief introduction about GT in the Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice intended primarily for classroom use. 3. Defining Features of GT GT is a …
Learning Theory, Classroom Assessment, and Equity
Scholars of educational measurement have recently called for increased attention to classroom assessment, or the as- sessment that involves teachers and students on a daily ba-
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Using Student-Involved Classroom Assessment to Close
classroom assessment practice are described that, if put in place, would permit teachers and schools to draw upon a heretofore untapped reservoir of motivation in ways that benefit …
Educational Measurement: Origins, Theories and Explications
Journal of Educational Measurement Fall 1998, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 273-275 Educational Measurement: Origins, Theories and Explications ... thorough understanding of the classic works …
1 Roberts, M. R., & Gierl, M. J. Developing score reports for …
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 29(3), 25-38. 2 Abstract This paper presents a framework to provide a structured approach for developing score reports for cognitive …
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Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2-10. Pages 2-10 22. Brennan, R. L. (1998). Misconceptions at the intersection of measurement theory and practice. Educational …
Reliability Arguments in Classrooms University of New …
In a 2003 special issue of Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Brookhart called for the development of “classroometrics” (p. 8), measurement theory that works in, and grows out of, …
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Andrew T. Roach, Ph.D. Georgia State University P.O. Box 3980 Atlanta, GA 30302-3980 404-413-8178 aroach@gsu.edu . EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Identifying Critical 21st Century Skills for Workplace Success
This paper extends the literature on 21st century learning skills needed for workplace success by providing an empirical examination of employers’ direct communication to potential employees …
The Use of Portfolio to Assess Student’s Performance - ed
Recent educational developments such as constructivism and multiple intelligence theories as well as society requested new trends engendered to radical change in traditional approaches of …
Editorial: Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Machine ...
learning outcomes (Bulut, 2024; Tapalova et al., 2022; Wongvorachan et al., 2022). Meanwhile, the field of educational measurement has begun to harness the capabilities of AI and ML techniques …
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entire special issue of Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice (Nitko, 1991) on the topic; Gullickson's (2000) review of the need for Student Evaluation Standards; and Stiggins and …
