Measuring Up What Educational Testing Really Tells Us

Name: Measuring Up What Educational Testing Really Tells Us
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ISBN: 9780674035218

ISBN-10: 0674035216

ISBN-13: 9780674035218

Edition: 2008

Authors: Daniel Koretz

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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Daniel Koretz is Professor of Education at Harvard University.



Prologue


If Only It Were So Simple


What Is a Test?


What We Measure: Just How Good Is the Sample?


The Evolution of American Testing


What Test Scores Tell Us about American Kids


What Influences Test Scores, or How Not to Pick a School


Error and Reliability: How Much We Don't Know What We're Talking About


Reporting Performance: Standards and Scales


Validity


Inflated Test Scores


Adverse Impact and Bias


Testing Students with Special Needs


Sensible Uses of Tests


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index