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Miller, Linn & Gronlund,  Measurement and Assessment in Teaching, 10/E

NEW – Significant coverage of the Standards Movement and the No Child Left Behind legislation– including its implications for day-to-day classroom assessment and the students and teachers involved in the classroom assessment process. (See pages 6-11 and 13-20.)

~Familiarizes students with the changing context of testing and assessment – helps them better understand what’s required to meet state and federal assessment mandates.

NEW – Incorporates the new edition of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing . (Throughout Chapters 4 and 5.   See pages 71 and 126 for examples.)

~Ensures students understand the most current, most appropriate assessment standards.

NEW – Materials on selecting and using published tests were updated –reflecting new editions of tests and new approaches to assessment.   (As an example, see pages 409-414.)

~Helps readers better evaluate, select, and use published tests.

Detailed, straightforward guidelines for how to construct test items with lots of concrete examples –the clearest of any text on the market.   (As an example, see pages 187-192.)

~Provides future teaches with the crucial skill of being able to construct assessments that provide accurate and fair feedback on what students do and do not know or can or cannot do.   This aspect of the book also helps make it an invaluable professional reference that pre-service teachers will want to keep.

Throughout the text, provides step-by-step Checklists and Guidelines for ensuring quality assessment .   (See examples on pages 172, 239, 270, and 384.)

~Helps students apply content and provides quick reference guides for how to write items, provide feedback to students, etc.

Offers comprehensive coverage of classroom assessment –including informal assessment procedures like observation (Chapter 13), methods for constructing objective test items like multiple-choice (Chapters 7 and 8), methods like performance assessments and essays for measuring complex achievement (Chapters 9-11), grading and portfolios (Chapters 12 and 15), and standardized tests (Chapters 16-19).

~Everything needed in the course is covered in a single book

NEW – Significant coverage of the Standards Movement and the No Child Left Behind legislation– including its implications for day-to-day classroom assessment and the students and teachers involved in the classroom assessment process. (See pages 6-11 and 13-20.)

~Familiarizes students with the changing context of testing and assessment – helps them better understand what’s required to meet state and federal assessment mandates.

NEW – Incorporates the new edition of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing . (Throughout Chapters 4 and 5.   See pages 71 and 126 for examples.)

~Ensures students understand the most current, most appropriate assessment standards.

NEW – Materials on selecting and using published tests were updated –reflecting new editions of tests and new approaches to assessment.   (As an example, see pages 409-414.)

~Helps readers better evaluate, select, and use published tests.

Part I: The Measurement and Assessment Process

Chapter 1: Educational Testing and Assessment: Context, Issues, and Trends

Chapter 2: The Role of Measurement and Assessment in Teaching

Chapter 3: Instructional Goals and Objectives: Foundation for Assessment

Chapter 4: Validity

Chapter 5: Reliability and Other Desired Characteristics

Part 2: Classroom Tests and Assessments

Chapter 6: Planning Classroom Tests and Assessments

Chapter 7: Constructing Objective Test Questions: Simple Forms

Chapter 8: Constructive Objective Test Questions: Multiple-Choice

Chapter 9: Measuring Complex Achievement: The Interpretive Exercise

Chapter 10: Measuring Complex Achievement: Essay Questions

Chapter 11: Measuring Complex Achievement: Performace-Based Asesssments

Chapter 12: Portfolios

Chapter 13: Assessment Procedures: Observational Techniques, Peer Appraisal, and Self-Report

Chapter 14: Assembling, Administering, and Appraising Classroom Tests and Assessments

Chapter 15: Grading and Reporting

Part 3: Selecting and Using Published Tests

Chapter 16: Achievement Tests

Chapter 17: Aptitude Tests

Chapter 18: Test Selection, Administration, and Use

Chapter 19: Interpreting Test Scores and Norms

Assessment / Measurement  [ASSESSMENT AND MEASUREMENT]   (Ed Psych / Tests & Measurements)

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  Measurement and Assessment in Teaching, 10/E
  Miller, Linn & Gronlund
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 576 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0132408937 | ISBN-13: 9780132408936
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  For Classroom Assessment and Test and Measurement courses in Education Departments

  For years, this outstanding, classic text has been the market-leader for courses in Classroom Assessment and Test and Measurement taught in Education Departments across the nation. In a presentation that assumes no previous knowledge of assessment or measurement, the text provides crystal clear step-by-step instruction on such topics as constructing test questions, aligning assessment with learning goals, and interpreting standardized tests. Providing readers with an understanding of the role of assessment in the instructional process, the book helps students learn how to construct effective test questions that are aligned with learning objectives, evaluate published tests and properly interpret scores of standardized tests. The revision has been thoroughly updated and revised to include: The changing context of testing and assessment now required to meet state and federal assessment mandates; Many new examples of classroom assessments have been added; A stronger emphasis on the development of assessments testing higher order thinking skills, such as analysis, synthesis and evaluation; Updated discussion of student motivation on standardized test; Materials on published tests reflect new editions and new approaches to assessment; Significant coverage of the Standards Movement and No Child Left Behind legislation; Detailed, straightforward guidelines for how to construct test items with many concrete examples; and Coverage of both formative and summative assessment and of all practical aspects of classroom assessment teachers need. Measurement and Assessment in Teaching, tenth edition, introduces the elements of measurement and assessment that are essential to good teaching, once again paving the way for future educators.  

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