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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Resources in Education
Author: Years of Transition, Times for Change
Author: Andy HargreavesPublisher: Ontario Ministry of Education and Training
ISBN: 9780777811801
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Large-scale Assessment Programs for All Students
Author: Gerald TindalPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135653895
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The need for a comprehensive volume that reviews both the processes and issues involved in developing, administering, and validating large-scale assessment programs has never been greater. These programs are used for many purposes, including instructional program evaluation, promotion, certification, graduation, and accountability. One of the greatest problems we face is how to deal with special needs and bilingual populations. Examining these processes and issues is the mission of this book. It is organized into the following five sections: Introduction, Validity Issues, Technical Issues, Implementation Issues, and Epilogue. Each chapter follows a common structure: Overview of critical issues, review of relevant research, descriptions of current assessment methodologies, and recommendations for the future research and practice. Written by nationally recognized scholars,Large-Scale Assessment Programs for All Students: Validity, Technical Adequacy, and Implementation will appeal to anyone seriously involved in large scale testing, including educators, policymakers, testing company personnel, and researchers in education, psychology, and public policy.
Resources in Education
Author: Assessment of Individuals with Mental Retardation
Author: Ronald L. TaylorPublisher: Singular
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Machine Scoring of Student Essays
Author: Patricia Freitag EricssonPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The current trend toward machine-scoring of student work, Ericsson and Haswell argue, has created an emerging issue with implications for higher education across the disciplines, but with particular importance for those in English departments and in administration. The academic community has been silent on the issue—some would say excluded from it—while the commercial entities who develop essay-scoring software have been very active. Machine Scoring of Student Essays is the first volume to seriously consider the educational mechanisms and consequences of this trend, and it offers important discussions from some of the leading scholars in writing assessment. Reading and evaluating student writing is a time-consuming process, yet it is a vital part of both student placement and coursework at post-secondary institutions. In recent years, commercial computer-evaluation programs have been developed to score student essays in both of these contexts. Two-year colleges have been especially drawn to these programs, but four-year institutions are moving to them as well, because of the cost-savings they promise. Unfortunately, to a large extent, the programs have been written, and institutions are installing them, without attention to their instructional validity or adequacy. Since the education software companies are moving so rapidly into what they perceive as a promising new market, a wider discussion of machine-scoring is vital if scholars hope to influence development and/or implementation of the programs being created. What is needed, then, is a critical resource to help teachers and administrators evaluate programs they might be considering, and to more fully envision the instructional consequences of adopting them. And this is the resource that Ericsson and Haswell are providing here.
Oregon Administrative Rules
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
PNLA Quarterly
Author: Pacific Northwest Library AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Nation's Report Card
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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