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  • The Testing Charade

    Pretending to Make Schools Better

    by Daniel Koretz ...
    For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that schools need to be held accountable—we need to know whether what they're doing is actually working. But what does that mean in practice?High-stakes tests. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Measuring Up

    What Educational Testing Really Tells Us

    by Daniel Koretz ...
    How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be—well, complicated.Inspired by a ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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  • Noise

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  • What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

    Critics of intelligence tests—writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Goleman—have argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy, and interpersonal skills. However, such critiques imply that though intelligence tests may miss certain key noncognitive areas, they encompass most of what is important in the cognitive domain. In this ... Read more

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  • Heuristics and Biases

    The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

    Is our case strong enough to go to trial? Will interest rates go up? Can I trust this person? Such questions - and the judgments required to answer them - are woven into the fabric of everyday experience. This book, first published in 2002, examines how people make such judgments. The study of human judgment was transformed in the 1970s, when Kahneman and Tversky introduced their 'heuristics and ... Read more

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  • Methods of Social Research, 4th Edition

    An introduction for undergraduates to every stage of sociological research, showing how to deal effectively with typical problems they might encounter. The book is fully updated to include examples from the LA riots and the 1992 presidential elections. ... Read more

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  • District Leadership That Works

    Striking the Right Balance

    Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. This book introduces a top-down power mechanism called defined autonomy, a concept that focuses on district-defined, nonnegotiable, common goals and a system of accountability supported by assessment tools. Defined autonomy creates an effective balance of centralized direction and individualized empowerment ... Read more

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  • Basic Statistics for Educational Research

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    This is an beginning book on statistics and research. It could be used by undergraduate students and graduate students alike. The book covers several methods of research including correlational and experimental methods. Rudiments of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics are also presented. ... Read more

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  • Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection

    Series series Essentials of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
    This second edition provides managers and students the nuts and bolts of assessment processes and selection techniques. With this knowledge, managers learn to make informed personnel decisions based on the results of tests and assessments. The book emphasizes that employee performance predictions require well-formed hypotheses about personal characteristics that may be related to valued behavior ... Read more

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  • Testing for Learning

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    Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance. ... Read more

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  • Research Methods in Africana Studies

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    Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. It contains a collection of the ... Read more

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