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Scoring Performance Assessments Based on Judgements
Generalizability Theory
Inbunden, 2001
1122 kr
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Scoring Performance Assessments Based on Judgements focuses on the applications of Generalizability Theory to Performance Assessment. The author developed an objective method to examine the dependability of the scoring of large-scale performance assessments by humans. This book presents principles …
Evaluation Models
Viewpoints on Educational and Human Services Evaluation
Av D.L. Stufflebeam, George F. Madaus m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2310 kr
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Evaluation Models is an up-to-date revision of the classic text first published in 1983. Organized in three sections, the first includes a historical perspective on the growth of evaluation theory and practice and two comparative analyses of the various alternative perspectives on evaluation. The …
Evaluating Corporate Training: Models and Issues
Av Stephen M. Brown, Constance J. Seidner
Inbunden, 1997
1059 kr
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We are glad to have the opportunity to work together again in the planning and preparation of this edited volume on the evaluation of corporate training. Our respective professional careers have provided us with experience in this area, both as practitioners and as academicians. It is from both of …
Constructing Test Items
Multiple-Choice, Constructed-Response, Performance and Other Formats
Inbunden, 1997
1585 kr
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Constructing test items for standardized tests of achievement, ability, and aptitude is a task of enormous importance. The interpretability of a test's scores flows directly from the quality of its items and exercises. Concomitant with score interpretability is the notion that including only …
Measuring Up
Challenges Minorities Face in Educational Assessment
Av Arie L. Nettles, Michael T. Nettles
Inbunden, 1999
1059 kr
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This text revisits vital issues of equity and assessment through the research efforts and insights of many of America's most prominent educators and assessment experts. As its most urgent purpose, the publication aims to sensitize readers to the unfairness and inappropriate uses of testing …
Test Policy and Test Performance: Education, Language, and Culture
Inbunden, 1989
2111 kr
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Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment opportunities. Most major institutions of …
Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation: The Workplace and the Law
Inbunden, 1989
1059 kr
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Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment opportunities. Most major institutions of …
Creative Ideas For Teaching Evaluation
Activities, Assignments and Resources
Inbunden, 1989
1585 kr
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In 1976, the first session on the teaching of evaluation was held at an annual meeting of evaluators. A few hardy souls gathered to exchange ideas on improving the teaching of evaluation. At subsequent annual meetings, these informal sessions attracted more and more participants, eager to talk …
Evaluability Assessment
A Practical Approach
Av M.F. Smith
Inbunden, 1989
1059 kr
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My interest in and appreciation for program evaluation began in the early 1970's when conducting a curriculum development research project at the University of Florida's P. K. Y onge Laboratory School. This interest was sparked when it became apparent that testing the success of an education …
Practical Guide to Teacher Education Evaluation
Av Jerry B. Ayers, Mary F. Berney
Inbunden, 1989
1059 kr
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J. T. Sandefur Western Kentucky University American's ability to compete in world markets is eroding. The productivity growth of our competitors outdistances our own. The capacity of our economy to provide a high standard of living for all our people is increasingly in doubt. As jobs requiring …
Advances in Educational and Psychological Testing: Theory and Applications
Av Ronald K. Hambleton, Jac. N. Zaal
Inbunden, 1991
2111 kr
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Over the last 20 years there have been a large number of technical advances and changes in the field of educational and psychological testing. According to Anne Anastasi, The decade of the 1980's has been a period of unusual advances in ,psychological testing. Technological progress, theoretical …
Evaluating Preparation Programs for School Leaders and Teachers in Specialty Areas
Av Mary F. Berney, Jerry B. Ayers
Inbunden, 1990
533 kr
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Test Policy in Defense
Lessons from the Military for Education, Training, and Employment
Av Bernard R. Gifford, Linda C. Wing
Inbunden, 1991
1059 kr
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Bernard R. Gifford and Linda C. Wing Standardized testing has become a ubiquitous feature of American life. As a major source of information for reducing uncertainty in the alJocation of merit based educational, training, and employment opportunities, testing affects the life chances of …
Changing Assessments
Alternative Views of Aptitude, Achievement and Instruction
Av Bernard R. Gifford, Mary Catherine O'Connor
Inbunden, 1991
2111 kr
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Bernard R. Gifford As we edge toward the year 2000, the information age is a reality; the global marketplace is increasingly competitive; and the U.S. labor force is shrinking. Today more than ever, our nation's economic and social well-being hinges on our ability to tap our human resources-to …
Policy Perspectives on Educational Testing
Inbunden, 1992
848 kr
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Deals with various issues within the field of educational assessment, emphasizing those which have sparked the US public policy debate in recent years. Much of this volume centres on the impact of testing on various subgroups of the population, including blacks, hispanics and young children.
Training Evaluation Process
A Practical Approach to Evaluating Corporate Training Programs
Av David J. Basarab Sr., Darrell K. Root
Inbunden, 1992
1090 kr
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Details a unique training evaluation approach developed by David J. Basarab, formerly Manager of Educational Measurement at NCR and currently Manager of Evaluation at Motorola University, which has enabled these corporations to successfully evaluate their corporate training programmes. This allows …
Fractured Marketplace for Standardized Testing
Av Walter M. Haney, George F. Madaus m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1059 kr
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Standardized testing in the United States has been increasing at a rapid pace in the last twenty-five years. The market for tests has not only been expanding rapidly, but has also been changing sharply in structure into a fractured marketplace. Indeed, one of the main features of this book is that …
Teacher Self-Evaluation
Teachers in Their Own Mirror
Inbunden, 1993
1059 kr
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In response to the emerging need to develop teachers as professionals who evaluate their own work, this book presents the foundations of self-evaluation as well as self-evaluation models and tools that are likely to help educational practitioners to evaluate their own teaching, and thus raise the …
Designing Educational Project and Program Evaluations
A Practical Overview Based on Research and Experience
Inbunden, 1994
2100 kr
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Drawing upon experiences at state and local level project evaluation, and based on current research in the professional literature, Payne presents a practical, systematic, and flexible approach to educational evaluations. Evaluators at all levels -- state, local and classroom -- will find ideas …
International Perspectives on Academic Assessment
Av Thomas Oakland, Ronald K. Hambleton
Inbunden, 1995
1054 kr
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The goals and content of this text are derived from three ongoing efforts: to advance the institution of education and to promote educational opportunities to children and youth worldwide; to promote effective assessment policies and practices that enhance sound educational practice; and to address …
Equity and Excellence in Educational Testing and Assessment
Av National Symposium on Equity and Educati, Michael T. Nettles m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1585 kr
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This text focuses on the following four issues: the growing prominence that educational testing and assessment are playing in American education; the effect that current testing and assessment policies and practices are having upon minority and disadvantaged students and school systems; the new and …
Teacher Evaluation
Guide to Effective Practice
Av Anthony J. Shinkfield, D.L. Stufflebeam
Inbunden, 1995
2111 kr
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Teacher Evaluation: Guide to Professional Practice is organized around four dominant, interrelated core issues: professional standards, a guide to applying the Joint Committee's Standards, ten alternative models for the evaluation of teacher performance, and an analysis of these selected models. …
Corporate Training for Effective Performance
Av Martin Mulder, W.J. Nijhof m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1059 kr
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Corporate training and effective performance have become major issues in the 1980s and '90s. Reviews of the training research literature show that, parallel to the growing attention to corporate training, research has also increased in the field, giving a better understanding of the subject and …
Alternatives in Assessment of Achievements, Learning Processes and Prior Knowledge
Av Menucha Birenbaum, F. Dochy
Inbunden, 1995
2111 kr
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Achievement assessment has undergone a major shift, from what some call a `culture of testing' to a `culture of assessment'. Nowadays, a strong emphasis is placed on the integration of assessment and instruction, on assessing processes rather than just products, and on evaluating individual …
Teacher Evaluation
Guide to Effective Practice
Av Anthony J. Shinkfield, D.L. Stufflebeam
Häftad, 1996
2111 kr
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Teacher Evaluation: Guide to Professional Practice is organized around four dominant, interrelated core issues: professional standards, a guide to applying the Joint Committee's Standards, ten alternative models for the evaluation of teacher performance, and an analysis of these selected models. …
Superintendent Performance Evaluation: Current Practice and Directions for Improvement
Av I. Carl Candoli, Karen Cullen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1059 kr
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Every school district needs a system of sound superintendent performance evaluation. School district superintendents are and must be accountable to their school boards, communities, faculties, and students for delivering effective educational leadership. To assure that they are evaluated fairly, …
Program Evaluation
A Practitioner’s Guide for Trainers and Educators
Av Robert O. Brinkerhoff, D.M. Brethower m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
537 kr
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Please glance over the questions that follow and read the answers to those that are of interest. Q: What does this manual do? A: This manual guides the user through designing an evaluation. A: Who can use it? A: Anyone interested or involved in evaluating professional trammg or inservice education …
Evaluation of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Inbunden, 1985
537 kr
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Phil R. Manning "Can you prove that continuing education really makes any difference?" Over the years, educators concerned with continuing education (CE) for health professionals have either heard or voiced that question in one form or another more than once. But because of the difficulty in …
Decision-Oriented Educational Research
Av William Cooley, William Bickel
Inbunden, 1985
1067 kr
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Decision-Oriented Educational Research considers a form of educational research that is designed to be directly relevant to the current information requirements of those who are shaping educational policy or managing edu cational systems. It was written for those who plan to conduct such research, …
