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Author Salkind, Neil J., author

Title Tests & measurement for people who (think they) hate tests & measurement / Neil J. Salkind, University of Kansas
Edition 2 edition
Published Los Angeles : SAGE, [2013]

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Description xxiii, 399 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
Contents Contents note continued: 10.True-False Tests: T or F? I Passed My First Measurement Test -- What We Use Em for -- How to Write Em: The Guidelines -- The Good and the Bad -- Why True-False Items Are Good -- Why True-False Items Are Not So Good -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 11.Portfolios: Seeing the Big Picture -- What Portfolios Are -- The Good and the Bad -- Why Portfolios Are Good -- Why Portfolios Are Not So Good -- How Portfolios Work -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 12.So, Tell Me About Your Childhood: Interesting Interviews -- When We Use ̀€Em and What They Look Like -- Interviews: A Flavor for Everyone -- How to Do Em: The Guidelines -- The Good and the Bad -- Why Interview Items Are Good -- Why Interview Items Are Not So Good -- OK, I Got the Data---Now What? --
Contents note continued: 18.Test Bias: Fair for Everyone? -- The $64,000 Question: What Is Test Bias? -- Test Bias or Test Fairness? -- Moving Toward Fair Tests: The FairTest Movement -- Models of Test Bias -- The Difference-Difference Bias -- Item by Item -- On the Face of Things Model -- The Cleary Model -- Playing Fair -- Where It All Started: Test Score Differences Between Black and White American Children -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 19.The Law, Testing, and Ethics: No Child (Should Be) Left Behind and Other Hot Stuff -- No Child Left Behind, or NCLB: What It Is and How It Works -- How Testing Fits in -- What's Assessed and How -- What's the Big Deal About NCLB? -- The Education for All Handicapped Children Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: What They Are and How They Work -- What IDEA Does -- The Truth in Testing Law: High-Stakes Testing --
Contents note continued: And If You Can't Establish Validity Then What? -- A Last Friendly Word -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 5.Welcome to Lake Woebegone, Where All the Children Are Above Average: Norms and Percentiles -- The Basics: Raw (Scores) to the Bone! -- Percentiles or Percentile Ranks -- Percentiles: The Sequel -- What's to Love About Percentiles -- What's Not to Love About Percentiles -- Stanines (or Stanine Scores) -- What's to Love About Stanines -- What's Not to Love About Stanines -- The Standard (Fare) Scores -- Our Favorite Standard Score: The z Score -- What's to Love About z Scores -- What's Not to Love About z Scores -- Normalized Standard Scores -- T Scores to the Rescue -- Standing on Your Own: Criterion-Referenced Tests -- The Standard Error of Measurement -- What the SEM Means -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings --
Contents note continued: And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- pt. III The Tao and How of Testing -- 6.Short Answer and Completion Items: Baskin Robbins Has Flavors -- When We Use Em and What They Look Like -- How to Write Em: The Guidelines -- The Good and the Bad -- Why Short Answer and Completion Items Are Good -- Why Short Answer and Completion Items Are Not So Good -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 7.Essay Items: Hope You Can Write -- When We Use Em and What They Look Like -- How to Write Essay Items: The Guidelines -- The Good and the Bad -- Why Essay Items Are Good -- Why Essay Items Are Not So Good -- How to Score Essay Items -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 8.Multiple-Choice Items: Always Pick Answer C and You'll Be Right About 25% of the Time --
Contents note continued: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA: What It Is and How It Works -- Ethics and Assessment: Ten Things to Remember -- From Whence We Came -- And More Stuff to Be Concerned About (No, Really) -- The Flynn Effect: Getting Smarter All the Time -- Teacher Competency: So, You Think You're Ready for the Big Time? -- School Admissions: Sorry, No Room This Year -- The Bell Curve and the Tails Never Really Touch -- Baby Mozart: I Want My 6-Year-Old to Play at Carnegie Hall -- Cyril Burt: Do We Bring It With Us? -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Your Tests and Measurement Statistics Toolkit -- Appendix B The Guide to (Almost) Every Test in the World -- Appendix C Answers to Practice Questions
Contents note continued: Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 3.Getting It Right Every Time: Reliability and Its Importance -- Test Scores: Truth or Dare -- Getting Conceptual -- If You Know About rxy Skip This Section -- Different Flavors of Reliability -- Test-Retest Reliability -- Parallel Forms Reliability -- Internal Consistency Reliability -- Interrater Reliability -- How Big Is Big? Interpreting Reliability Coefficients -- And If You Can't Establish Reliability... Then What? -- Just One More Thing (and It's a Big One) -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 4.The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: Validity and Its Importance -- A Bit More About the Truth -- Reliability and Validity: Very Close Cousins -- Different Types of Validity -- Content Validity -- Criterion Validity -- Construct Validity --
Contents note continued: Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- pt. IV What to Test and How to Test It -- 13.Achievement Tests: Who Really Discovered America? -- What Achievement Tests Do -- How Achievement Tests Differ From One Another -- Teacher (or Researcher) Made Versus Standardized Achievement Tests -- Group Versus Individual Achievement Tests -- Criterion-Versus Norm-Referenced -- How to Do It: The ABCs of Creating a Standardized Test -- The Amazing Table of Specifications -- What They Are: A Sampling of Achievement Tests and What They Do -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 14.Personality Tests: Type A, Type B, or Type C? -- What Personality Tests Are and How They Work -- Objective or Projective: You Tell Me -- Developing Personality Tests -- Using Content and Theory --
Contents note continued: Using a Criterion Group -- Using Factor Analysis -- Using Personality Theory -- What They Are: A Sampling of Personality Tests and What They Do -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 15.Aptitude Tests: What's in Store for Me? -- What Aptitude Tests Do -- How to Do It: The ABCs of Creating an Aptitude Test -- Types of Aptitude Tests -- Mechanical Aptitude Tests -- Artistic Aptitude Tests -- Readiness Aptitude Tests -- Clerical Aptitude Tests -- Some of the Big Ones -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 16.Intelligence Tests: That Rubik's Cube Is Driving Me Nuts -- The ABCs of Intelligence -- The Big "g" -- More Than Just the Big "g": The Multiple Factor Approach -- The Three-Way Deal --
Contents note continued: Way More Than One Type of Intelligence: Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences -- Emotional Intelligence: A Really Different Idea -- From the Beginning: (Almost) All About the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale -- A Bit of History -- What's the Score? Administering the Stanford-Binet (and Other Tests of Intelligence) -- And the Fab Five Are -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 17.Career Choices: So You Want to Be a What? -- What Career Development Tests Do -- Let's Get Started: The Strong Interest Inventory -- John Holland and the Self-Directed Search (SDS) -- Some Major Caveats: Career Counseling 101 -- Five Career Tests -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- pt. V It's Not Always as You Think: Issues in Tests and Measurement --
Contents note continued: When We Use Em and What They Look Like -- Multiple-Choice Anatomy 101 -- How to Write Multiple-Choice Items: The Guidelines -- The Good and the Bad -- Why Multiple-Choice Items Are Good -- Why Multiple-Choice Items Are Not So Good -- Analyzing Multiple-Choice Items -- Computing the Difficulty Index -- Computing the Discrimination Index -- How the Difficulty and Discrimination Index Get Along: Quite Well, Thank You -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- 9.Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Matching Items -- When We Use Em and What They Look Like -- How to Write Em: The Guidelines -- The Good and the Bad -- Why Matching Items Are Good -- Why Matching Items Are Not So Good -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? -- Further Readings -- And, on the Internet -- And, in the Real (Testing) World --
Machine generated contents note: pt. I In the Beginning -- 1.Why Measurement? An Introduction -- A Five-Minute History of Testing -- So, Why Tests and Measurement? -- What We Test -- Why We Test -- Some Important Reminders -- What Am I Doing in a Tests and Measurement Class? -- Ten Ways to Use This Book (and Learn About Tests and Measurement at the Same Time!) -- And, in the Real (Testing) World -- About Those Icons -- The Famous Difficulty Index -- Glossary -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- pt. II The Psychology of Psychometrics -- 2.One Potato, Two Potatoes...Levels of Measurement and Their Importance -- First Things First -- The Four Horsemen (or Levels) of Measurement -- The Nominal Level of Measurement -- The Ordinal Level of Measurement -- The Interval Level of Measurement -- The Ratio Level of Measurement -- A Summary: How Levels of Measurement Differ -- OK, So What's the Lesson Here? -- The Final Word(s) -- Summary -- Time to Practice -- Want to Know More? --
Part 1. In the Beginning. . . -- Chapter 1. Why Measurement? An Introduction -- Part II. The Psychology of Psychometrics -- Chapter 2. One Potato, Two Potatoes . . . Levels of Measurement and Their Importance -- Chapter 3. Getting It Right Every Time: Reliability and Its Importance -- Chapter 4. The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: Validity and Its Importance -- Chapter 5. Welcome to Lake Woebegone, Where All the Children Are Above Average, Norms and Percentiles -- Part III. The Tao and How of Testing -- Chapter 6. Short Answer and Completion Items: Baskin Robbins (C) Has _ Flavors -- Chapter 7. Essay Items: Hope You Can Write -- Chapter 8. Multiple-Choice Items: Always Pick Answer C and You'll Be Right About 25% of the Time -- Chapter 9. Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Matching Items -- Chapter 10. True-False Tests: T or F? I Passed My First Measurement Test -- Chapter 11. Portfolios: Seeing the Big Picture -- Chapter 12. So, Tell Me About Your Childhood: Interesting Interviews -- Part IV. What to Test and How to Test It -- Chapter 13. Achievement Tests: Who Really Discovered America? -- Chapter 14: Personality Tests: Type A, Type B, or Type C? -- Chapter 15. Aptitude Tests: What's in Store for Me? -- Chapter 16. Intelligence Tests: That Rubik's Cube Is Driving Me Nuts -- Chapter 17. Career Choices: So You Want to Be a What? -- Part V. It's Not Always As You Think: Issues in Tests and Measurement -- Chapter 18. Test Bias: Fair for Everyone? -- Chapter 19. The Law, Testing, and Ethics: No Child (Should Be) Left Behind and Other Hot Stuff
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ability -- Testing.
Educational tests and measurements.
Testing.
LC no. 2011041171
ISBN 9781412989756 (paperback)
Other Titles Tests and measurement for people who (think they) hate tests and measurement