Tests, testing, and genuine school reform
"The pressing need to improve achievement in American schools is widely recognized. In Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform, Herbert J. Walberg draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to inform citizens, educators, and policy makers about well-established principles of testing, current problems, and promising evidence-based solutions. He explains the central considerations in developing and evaluating good tests and tells how tests can best be used, covering such topics as usin…
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- Full title :Tests, testing, and genuine school reform / Herbert J. Walberg.
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"The pressing need to improve achievement in American schools is widely recognized. In Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform, Herbert J. Walberg draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to inform citizens, educators, and policy makers about well-established principles of testing, current problems, and promising evidence-based solutions. He explains the central considerations in developing and evaluating good tests and tells how tests can best be used, covering such topics as using tests for student incentives, paying teachers for performance, and using tests in efforts to attain new state and national standards. To minimize mistaken policies and practices, the book also describes testing technology to enable readers to evaluate and make better use of tests. And because valid tests cannot be developed without clear, specific standards, one chapter is devoted to discussing standards and how they should determine the plans and development of tests and testing. In view of the continuing technical and political problems of tests and testing, the last chapter argues that, for accountability, to improve tests and testing, and to prevent fraud, the development, administration, scoring, and reporting test results should be conducted independent of traditional school authorities"--
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- Publication Date:©2011
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Education Next Books
- Place of Publication:Stanford, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (108 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0817913564, 9780817913564
- oclc:ocn961593460
- LC Classification:LB3051
- Dewey Decimal:371.260973
Table of Contents
Introduction and overview -- Why tests are necessary -- Well-made tests -- Types and uses of achievement tests -- Preparing standardized achievement tests -- Tests as incentives -- Preventing test fraud -- Standards and testing -- Using tests to raise student achievement.
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