Alternatives in Assessment of Achievements, Learning Processes and Prior Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 42
• Achievement assessment has undergone a major shift, from what some call a `culture of testing' to a `culture of assessment'. Nowadays, a strong emphas... Lees meer

Parallel Evolution of Parallel Processors

G Lerman, L Rudolph

• Paperback | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services
• Study the past, if you would divine the future. -CONFUCIUS A well written, organized, and concise survey is an important tool in any newly emerging fi... Lees meer

Test Policy and Test Performance: Education, Language, and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 23
• Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the dete... Lees meer

Test Policy in Defense

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 31
• Bernard R. Gifford and Linda C. Wing Standardized testing has become a ubiquitous feature of American life. As a major source of information for reduc... Lees meer

Alternative Approaches to the Assessment of Achievement

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 16
• Ingrained for many years in the science of educational assessment were a large number of "truths" about how to make sense out of testing results, artf... Lees meer

Constructing Test Items

Steven J Osterlind

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 47
• Constructing test items for standardized tests of achievement, ability, and aptitude is a task of enormous importance. The interpretability of a test'... Lees meer

International Perspectives on Academic Assessment

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 39
• The goals and content for this book are derived from three important and ongoing efforts: to advance the institution of education and to promote educa... Lees meer

Decision-Oriented Educational Research

William Cooley, William Bickel

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 11
• Decision-Oriented Educational Research considers a form of educational research that is designed to be directly relevant to the current information re... Lees meer

Analysis and Evaluation of Fuzzy Systems

Akira Ishikawa, Terry L Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 2
• Note to the Japanese language appendix. 1. Needs Study of Human Friendly Fuzzy Systems. 2. Survey Overview. 3. Analysis of Survey Results: Development... Lees meer

A Practical Guide to Teacher Education Evaluation

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 27
• J. T. Sandefur Western Kentucky University American's ability to compete in world markets is eroding. The productivity growth of our competitors outdi... Lees meer

Educational Evaluation: Classic Works of Ralph W. Tyler

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services
• I personally learned to know Ralph Tyler rather late in his career when, in the 1960s, I spent a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in ... Lees meer

Scoring Performance Assessments Based on Judgements

Christopher Wing-Tat Chiu

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 50
• Scoring Performance Assessments Based on Judgements focuses on the applications of Generalizability Theory to Performance Assessment. The author devel... Lees meer

The Fractured Marketplace for Standardized Testing

Walter M Haney, George F Madaus, Robert Lyons

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 34
• 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 ex... Lees meer

Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services
• I. Introduction. 1. Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World: An Introductory Summary; L. Bovenberg, S. Cnossen. 2. Public Finance a... Lees meer

Evaluability Assessment

M F Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 26
• My interest in and appreciation for program evaluation began in the early 1970's when conducting a curriculum development research project at the Univ... Lees meer

Evaluation of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 18
• Phil R. Manning "Can you prove that continuing education really makes any difference?" Over the years, educators concerned with continuing education (... Lees meer

Advances in Educational and Psychological Testing: Theory and Applications

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 28
• Over the last 20 years there have been a large number of technical advances and changes in the field of educational and psychological testing. Accordi... Lees meer

Creative Ideas for Teaching Evaluation

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 24
• 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 ... Lees meer

Equity and Excellence in Educational Testing and Assessment

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 40
• 5 TABLE I Average Reading Proficiency and Achievement Levels by RacelEthnicity Grades 4 8 and 12 1992 Reading Assessment Percentage of Student At or A... Lees meer

Evaluation in Decision Making

Naftaly S Glasman, David Nevo

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 19
• This book is about the practice of decision making by school principals and about ways to improve this practice by capitalizing on evaluation dimensio... Lees meer

Item Response Theory

Ronald K Hambleton, H Swaminathan

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services
• In the decade of the 1970s, item response theory became the dominant topic for study by measurement specialists. But, the genesis of item response the... Lees meer

Critical Perspectives on the Organization and Improvement of Schooling

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 13
• Major "paradigm shifts"-replacing one "world view" with another- regarding what constitutes appropriate knowledge do not happen over- night. Centuries... Lees meer

Changing Assessments

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 30
• 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.... Lees meer

Evaluating Corporate Training: Models and Issues

• Hardcover | Engels | Evaluation in Education and Human Services | nr. 46
• 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 traini... Lees meer