"Education Reform Testing Measurement" downloads

This book describes a comprehensive school reform approach that reduces resistance to school reform and increases the likelihood of creating...

The National Assessments of Educational Achievement Series introduces readers to key concepts and issues related to assessments of student achievement...

Using Test Data for Student Achievement shows educators, step by step, how to use test data to facilitate student learning....

The Importance of Average drives home the reality that average intellectual ability is not synonymous with mediocrity. Under the right...

Standards-based education (SBE) has been the dominant educational reform movement since the early 1980s, reinforced by federal and state accountability...

For 160 years, North American children have been subject to compulsory schooling. Formal education has evolved some over that time,...

With the current push toward educational reform, there is great potential for innovation and change, particularly in large scale testing....

The author draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to show how standardized achievement tests must play a...

This book is about doing what’s right for public education in the United States in this age of intensive curriculum...

What purpose does educational assessment serve? Are the same instruments suitable for different purposes? How much trust can we place...

As the commitment to performance assessments as a strategy of reform has increased across the nation, so has the controversy...

Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They...

Testing in U.S. public schools is out of control. The stress and pressures for all involved have effects that are...

Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America's Conscience is a compelling indictment of the use of high-stakes assessments with punitive...

In this era of accountability and high-stakes testing, school leaders must find more sophisticated ways to help all students succeed....

Much of the common knowledge about standardized tests is simply wrong, and these misunderstandings have led to the distortion of...

Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific...

This comprehensive Handbook is the first to provide a practical, interdisciplinary review of ethical issues as they relate to quantitative...