Educational Measurement
Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education/ Charles Secolsky, D. Brian Denison
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and advances in the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. This research handbook provides higher education administrators, student affairs personnel, institutional researchers, and faculty with an integrated volume of theory, method, and application
Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Josse Bass Higher and Adult Education) /Thomas A. Angelo, K. Patricia Cross
Within each chapter of this innovative, pedagogically rich text the authors introduce students to a wide range of real-world applications of psychological research to child development. The Active Learning features incorporated throughout the book foster a dynamic and personal learning process for students. The authors cover the latest topics shaping the field of child development--including a focus on neuroscience, diversity, and culture--without losing the interest of undergraduate students.
The Formative Assessment Action Plan: Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning / Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher
Winner of a 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers! Join Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher as they outline a clear-cut, realistic, and rewarding approach to formative assessment. They explain how four discrete steps work in tandem to create a seamless, comprehensive formative assessment system one that has no beginning and no end. This ongoing approach enhances an active give-and-take relationship between teachers and students to promote learning
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation / Bruce B. Frey
"The title of this encyclopedia seems to cover at least three distinct fields, each of which could easily fill several volumes of its own. Indeed, there are several fine reference works that cover social science research methods, statistics, assessment and measurement, and program evaluation. Program evaluators use methods developed by educational researchers and develop instruments following measurement best practice. Many, maybe most, of the basic measurement statistics and foundational measurement principles were first conceived and developed by educational researchers.
Measurements in Distance Education: A Compendium of Instruments, Scales, and Measures for Evaluating Online Learning / Amy J. Catalano
As more postsecondary faculty become engaged in designing online learning environments, research conducted on distance education program quality becomes increasingly important. Measurements in Distance Education is a concise, well-organized guide to some of the many instruments, scales, and methods that have been created to assess distance education environments, learners, and teachers.
Educators across grade levels and content areas can apply the concepts of Marzano's New Taxonomy to turn standards into concrete objectives and assessments to measure student learning.
Teacher Evaluation That Makes a Difference: A New Model for Teacher Growth and Student Achievement / Robert J. Marzano, Michael D. Toth
Here are practical, realistic curricular adaptations for ensuring successful inclusion of students with special needs. This highly readable, well researched, and current resource uses a developmental focus, rather than a disability orientation, to discuss typical and atypical child development and curricular adaptations, and encourage the treatment of students as children first, without regard to their learning differences
What is a rubric? A rubric is a coherent set of criteria for student work that describes levels of performance quality. Sounds simple enough, right? Unfortunately, rubrics are commonly misunderstood and misused. The good news is that when rubrics are created and used correctly, they are strong tools that support and enhance classroom instruction and student learning. In this comprehensive guide, author identifies two essential components of effective rubrics: (1) criteria that relate to the learning (not the tasks ) that students are being asked to demonstrate and (2) clear descriptions of performance across a continuum of quality.
A review of international large-scale assessments in education assessing component skills and collecting contextual data / OECD
The OECD has initiated PISA for Development (PISA-D) in response to the rising need of developing countries to collect data about their education systems and the capacity of their student bodies. This report aims to compare and contrast approaches regarding the instruments that are used to collect data on (a) component skills and cognitive instruments, (b) contextual frameworks, and (c) the implementation of the different international assessments, as well as approaches to include children who are not at school, and the ways in which data are used. It then seeks to identify assessment practices in these three areas that will be useful for developing countries.