Educational measurement and testing / William Wiersma, Stephen G. Jurs
Imprint
Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1990
Edition
2nd ed
Descript
xvi, 415 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Part one Introduction to meaeurement--Part two Test construction--Planning the test--Selected-response items--Constructed-response items--Part three Norm-rererenced measurement--Norm groups--Comparing scores to norm groups--Item statistics for norm-referenced tests--Reliability of norm-referenced tests--Validity of norm-referenced tests--Part four Critrion-referenced measurement--Criterion-referenced tests--Item statistics for criterion-referenced tests--Reliability of criterion-referenced tests--validity of criterion-referenced--tests--Part five Additional testing concerns--Factors that affect test scores--The use of standardized achievement tests--test bias--High-stades tests