Principles of Educational and Psychological Measurement and EvaluationThis edition continues Sax's tradition of comprehensive and comprehensible coverage of testing and measurement principles while including the most recent theory and research. |
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Preface | 1 |
Chapter objectives 4 Early use of measurement 5 | 13 |
surement instruments 19 Summary 27 Suggested read | 28 |
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ability achievement tests administered aptitude tests attitudes average behavior central tendency chapter CLASSROOM TEST CONSTRUCTION computed content validity correct correlation criteria criterion criterion-referenced criterion-referenced tests determine developed difficulty level discriminate distribution Educational effects equivalence error of measurement essay tests evaluation examination example factors figure formula guessing intelligence tests INTERPRETING MEASUREMENTS item analysis King Features Syndicate knowledge manual mean median METHODS OF CLASSROOM multiple-choice norm-referenced tests norms number of items number of students objectives Observational Error observations options percent percentile performance persons points predictive validity predictor PRINCIPLES AND METHODS procedures Psychological questions raters ratings reading relationship reported require responded correctly responses sample scales selected social specific standard deviation standard scores STANDARDIZED TESTS stanines subtests SUMMARIZING AND INTERPRETING teachers tend test scores Thurstone scales tion trait true score true variance true-false validity coefficients variability z scores