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Title Improving large-scale assessment in education : theory, issues and practice / edited by Marielle Simon, Kadriye Ercikan, and Michel Rousseau
Published New York : Routledge, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 298 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Marielle Simon, Kadriye Ercikan, and Michel Rousseau -- Large-scale assessment design and development for the measurement of student cognition / Jacqueline P. Leighton -- Role and design of background questionnaires in large-scale assessments / Ruth A. Childs and Orlena Broomes -- Student motivation in large-scale assessments / Christina Van Barneveld [and others] -- Computer-based and computer-adaptive testing / Richard M. Luecht -- Academic assessment of English language learners : a critical, probabilistic, systemic view / Guillermo Solano-Flores and Martha Gustafson -- Score comparability of multiple language versions of assessments within jurisdictions / Kadriye Ercikan, Marielle Simon, and María Elena Oliveri -- Accomodating special needs for large-scale assessments / Leilani Sáez, Elisa Jamgochian and Gerald Tindal -- Scoring issues in large-scale assessments / María Elena Oliveri, Britta Gundersen-Bryden, and Kadriye Ercikan -- Standard setting : past, present, and perhaps future / Robert W. Lissitz -- From "Here's the story" to "You're in charge" : developing and maintaining large-scale online test- and score-reporting resources / April L. Zenisky and Ronald K. Hambleton -- Making value-added inferences from large-scale assessments / Derek C. Briggs -- Complex person and item sampling : implications for analysis and inference / Jessica L. Mislevy, Laura M. Stapleton, and André A. Rupp -- Taking atypical response patterns into account : a multidimensional measurement model from item response theory / Gilles Raîche [and others] -- Missing data : issues and treatments / Michel Rousseau -- Measurement and statistical analysis issues with longitudinal assessment data / Bruno D. Zumbo, Amery D. Wu, and Yan Liu
Summary "Large-scale assessments (LSAs) play a growing role in education policy decisions, accountability, and education planning worldwide. This book focuses on central issues that are key components of successful planning, development and implementation of LSAs. The book's main distinction is its focus on practice- based, cutting-edge research. This is achieved by having chapters co-authored by world-class researchers in collaboration with measurement practitioners. The result is a how-to book whose language is accessible to practitioners and graduate students as well as academics. No other book so thoroughly covers current issues in the field of large-scale assessment. An introductory chapter is followed by sixteen chapters that each focus on a specific issue. The content is prescriptive and didactic in nature but based on the most recent scientific research. It includes successful experiences, exemplary practices, training modules, interesting breakthroughs or alternatives, and promising innovations regarding large-scale assessments. Finally, it covers meaningful topics that are currently taking center stage such as motivating students, background questionnaires, comparability of different linguistic versions of assessments, and cognitive modeling of learning and assessment"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Educational tests and measurements -- Methodology
EDUCATION -- Testing & Measurement.
EDUCATION -- Evaluation.
STUDY AIDS -- Tests.
Educational tests and measurements -- Methodology
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Form Electronic book
Author Simon, Marielle
Ercikan, Kadriye
Rousseau, Michel, 1971-
LC no. 2012009731
ISBN 9781136578359
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