Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us - Softcover

Koretz, Daniel

 
9780674035218: Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us
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ISBN 10: 0674035216 ISBN 13: 9780674035218
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2009

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How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be―well, complicated.

Inspired by a popular Harvard course for students without an extensive mathematics background, Measuring Up demystifies educational testing―from MCAS to SAT to WAIS, with all the alphabet soup in between. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Daniel Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education. He walks readers through everyday examples to show what tests do well, what their limits are, how easily tests and scores can be oversold or misunderstood, and how they can be used sensibly to help discover how much kids have learned.

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Daniel Koretz is Professor of Education at Harvard University.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674035216
ISBN 13 
9780674035218
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368
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