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Assessing Children with Specific Learning Difficulties: A teacher's practical guide
By Gad Elbeheri, Gavin Reid, John Everatt
This comprehensive book provides all the information that teachers need to know about assessment in relation to their pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties. The why, how and what of assessment will be addressed, whilst the link between assessment and intervention will also be a key focus....
June 2011 | 978-0-415-59760-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Developing and Validating Test Items
By Thomas M. Haladyna, Michael Rodriguez, Steven M. Downing
Since test items are the building blocks of any test, learning how to develop and validate test items has always been critical to the teaching-learning process. As they grow in importance and use, testing programs increasingly supplement the use of selected-response (multiple-choice) items with...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-87605-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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From Testing to Productive Student Learning: Implementing Formative Assessment in Confucian-Heritage Settings
By David Carless
Formative assessment is a major driver of teacher and student actions in all educational systems, and it is an increasingly high-profile topic. This book scrutinises the relationship between testing and learning from a vantage point outside the main Anglophone countries, by using data from schools...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-88082-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Cultural Validity in Assessment: Addressing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
Edited by Maria del Rosario Basterra, Elise Trumbull, Guillermo Solano-Flores
What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for linguistic and cultural variation among students jeopardize assessment validity? What is required to achieve cultural validity in assessment? This resource for practicing and prospective teachers—as well as others...
December 2010 | 978-0-415-99980-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Introduction to Psychometric Theory
By Tenko Raykov, George A. Marcoulides
This new text provides a state-of the-art introduction to educational and psychological testing and measurement theory that reflects many intellectual developments of the past two decades. The book introduces psychometric theory using a latent variable modeling (LVM) framework and emphasizes...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-87822-7 | Hardback (Routledge Academic)
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Resilient Playgrounds
By Beth Doll, Katherine Brehm
While recess provides children with a time to play and take a break from the school day, research has shown that it is also a necessary and vital part of their social, emotional, and academic development. This book provides tools and strategies for school mental health professionals, teachers,...
November 2009 | 978-0-415-96088-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Handbook of Formative Assessment
Edited by Heidi Andrade, Gregory J. Cizek
Formative assessment has recently become a focus of renewed research as state and federal policy-makers realize that summative assessments have reached a point of diminishing returns as a tool for increasing student achievement. Consequently, supporters of large-scale testing programs are now...
November 2009 | 978-0-415-99320-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Applying Generalizability Theory using EduG
By Jean Cardinet, Sandra Johnson, Gianreto Pini
Intended to help improve measurement and data collection methods in the behavioral, social, and medical sciences, this book demonstrates an expanded and accessible use of Generalizability Theory (G theory). G theory conceptually models the way in which the reliability of measurement is ascertained....
October 2009 | 978-1-84872-829-5 | Paperback (Routledge Academic)