Why We Assess Students [microform] : And How. The Competing Measures of Student Performance. The Practicing Administrator's Leadership Series / James E. McLean and Robert E. Lockwood
- Bib ID:
- 5602110
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- McLean, James E
- Description:
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- [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996
- 73 p.
- ISBN:
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- 9780803963351
- 0803963351
- Summary:
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This book addresses the roles assessments play in education and provides detailed descriptions of the common assessment types, norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests, and alternative assessments. Chapter 1 discusses the current arguments for and against the various methods of assessment, the quality requirements for test instruments, and the need to pay attention to equity and bias issues. Chapter 2 addresses the development, administration, uses, and interpretation of norm-referenced testing and its strengths and weaknesses. Chapters 3 and 4 provide similar discussions of criterion-referenced testing and alternative or authentic testing approaches. Chapter 5 demonstrates an ideal assessment system and how to develop one for any school system. If assessment is to be a positive force in education, it must be implemented properly and used to improve education, rather than merely to sort students. An annotated bibliography contains 12 references. (SLD)
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- Availability: Corwin Press, Inc., A Sage Publications Company, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320.
- Administrators.
- Practitioners.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lockwood, Robert E, author
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- ERIC
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