Educational testing and measurement : classroom application and practice
/ Tom Kubiszyn
- 7th ed.
- Singapore : John Wiley & Sons, 2003
- xv, 508 p.
an introduction to contemporary educational testing and measurement; high stakes testing; the purpose of testing; norm and criterion referenced tests and content validity evidence; measuring learning outcomes; writing objective test items; writing essay and higher order tet items; performance-based assessment; portfolio assessment; administering, analyzing and improving the written test; marks and marking systems; summarizing data and measures of central tendency; variability, the normal distribution and converted scores; correlation; validity; reliability; accuracy and error; standardized tests; types of standardized tests; testing and assessing children with special needs in the regular classroom; assessing children with disabilities in regular education classrooms; in the classroom: a summary dialogue