Alternative Approaches to the Assessment of Achievement

Ingrained for many years in the science of educational assessment were a large number of "truths" about how to make sense out of testing results, artful wisdoms that appear to have held away largely by force of habit alone. Practitioners and researchers only occasionally agreed about how t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McArthur, David L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
Series:Evaluation in Education and Human Services
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Educational Assessment: A Brief History
  • 2: Toward More Sensible Achievement Measurement: A Retrospective
  • 3: Analysis of Patterns: The S-P Technique
  • 4: The Rasch Model for Item Analysis
  • 5: The Three-Parameter Logistic Model
  • 6: Measuring Achievement with Latent Structure Models
  • 7: Generalizability Theory and Achievement Testing
  • 8: Analysis of Reading Comprehension Data
  • 9: A Comparison of Models for Measuring Achievement