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Educational Testing and Measurement: Classroom Application and Practice, 10th Edition

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An accessible, reader-friendly resource that equips educators with practical testing strategies for today’s challenging educational environment. The Tenth Edition of Educational Testing and Measurement integrates up-to-date research on international testing programs and how the results compare to the performance of American students. Expanding on competency testing for teachers, Educational Testing and Measurement includes recent developments that will be helpful to teachers in training. The text also helps teachers prepare their students for high-stakes testing and explains issues surrounding the topic including waivers, standards and proficiency goals. Additional research on the Response to Intervention approach to both general and special education reform is incorporated, highlighting the technical and implementation changes associated with this approach.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Contemporary Educational Testing and Measurement

Chapter 2: High-Stakes Testing

Chapter 3: Response-to-Intervention (RTI) and the Regular Classroom Teacher

Chapter 4: The Purpose of Testing

Chapter 5: Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Tests and Content Validity Evidence

Chapter 6: Measuring Learning Outcomes

Chapter 7: Writing Objective Test Items

Chapter 8: Writing Essay Test Items

Chapter 9: Performance-Based Assessment

Chapter 10: Portfolio Assessment

Chapter 11: Administering, Analyzing, and Improving the Test or Assessment

Chapter 12: Marks and Marking Systems

Chapter 13: Summarizing Data and Measures of Central Tendency

Chapter 14: Variability, the Normal Distribution, and Converted Scores

Chapter 15: Correlation

Chapter 16: Validity Evidence

Chapter 17: Reliability

Chapter 18: Accuracy and Error

Chapter 19: Standardized Tests

Chapter 20: Types Of Standardized Tests

Chapter 21: In The Classroom: A Summary Dialogue

New To This Edition

Chapter 1 has been revised to underscore the importance of incorporating multiple sources of information about students whenever important educational decisions are made.
Chapter 2 on high-stakes testing has been revised to inform readers about important developments that have occurred since the previous edition.
Chapter 3 on the RTI approach has been revised to emphasize recently published research that addresses the technical and implementation challenges associated with this approach.
Chapter 20 has been updated to include information on standardized tests that have been revised by their publishers since the previous edition.
Language has been refined and clarified throughout the 10^th edition
New references have been added that reflect the most recent knowledge and research.

Hallmark Features

The complex and controversial issues around NCLB, high-stakes testing, and IDEIA are addressed in a thoughtful, non-biased way.
The authors have written the text with their primary audience - classroom teachers - fully in mind.
Presents complex, abstract ideas and procedures in an up-to-date, accurate, and accessible manner.
A friendly, conversational style stresses the application of theory while still providing ample theoretical background that provides students with a strong foundation in educational testing.
The organization and presentation of the content allows for maximum flexibility.