ISBN: 9781412916837

Standard Setting: A Guide to Establishing and Evaluating Performance Standards on Tests provides the only "go-to" reference on how to set standards on tests in education, licensure, and c… More...

Standard Setting: A Guide to Establishing and Evaluating Performance Standards on Tests provides the only "go-to" reference on how to set standards on tests in education, licensure, and certification. It is comprehensive in scope, practical in nature, and definitive in terms of cataloguing the essential conceptual and procedural fundamentals of setting performance standards.Key Features:" Offers an overview of the importance of standard setting, current demands, legislation, formats, and licensure and certification contents" Provides a detailed look at the distinctions between oft-confused concepts such as "content standards" and "performance standards" " Gives a straightforward review of the common elements in setting performance standards" Provides detailed inclusion of the various methods (Angoff, Item Mapping, Analystic Judgment, etc.)for setting performance standards" Includes a full chapter devoted to the future issues and research in standard setting as well as a glossary of key terms and a full set of references to aid the reader's literature review Gregory J. Cizek is Professor of Educational Measurement at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His background in the field of educa­tional assessment includes five years as a manager of licensure and certification testing programs for American College Testing (ACT) in Iowa City, Iowa, and 15 years of teaching experience at the col­lege level, where his teaching assignments have consisted primarily of graduate courses in educational testing, research methods, and statistics. He is the author of over 200 books, chapters, articles, conference papers, and reports. His books include Handbook of Educational Policy (Academic Press, 1998); Cheating on Tests: How to Do It, Detect It, and Prevent It (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999); Setting Performance Standards: Concepts, Methods, and Perspectives (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001); and Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating (Corwin Press, 2003). Dr. Cizek has served as an elected member and vice president of a local school board in Ohio, and he currently works with several states, organizations, and the U.S. Department of Education on tech­nical and policy issues related to large-scale standards-based testing programs for students in grades K-12. He began his career as an ele­mentary school teacher in Michigan, where he taught second and fourth grades. SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS OF STANDARD SETTING, SAGE Publications INC International Concepts<

2006, ISBN: 9781412916837

auteur: Cizek, Gregory J. auteur: Bunch, Michael B. Sage Publications, Inc, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 370 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-11-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-… More...

auteur: Cizek, Gregory J. auteur: Bunch, Michael B. Sage Publications, Inc, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 370 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-11-22T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: Illustrated, 1.06 kg, Verkaufsrang: 206696, Educatie & onderwijs, Categorieën, Boeken, Toegepaste psychologie, Psychologie & therapie, Gezondheid, fitness & voeding, Politiek, filosofie & sociale wetenschappen, Engelstalige boeken, Featured Categories, 171e018f-d202-437e-a05a-0ce26200c24c_0, Special Features Stores, Arborist Merchandising Root, Format: Geïllustreerd, Sage Publications, Inc, 2006<