Assessment: Problems, Developments and Statistical Issues - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471956686 ISBN 13: 9780471956686

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

Synopsis

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From the Publisher

The book covers such areas as the different purposes of assessment, questions of design and structure, control of grading procedures, locally-based assessment, social and political aspects. Important topical issues are examined in depth by leading experts in their respective fields. The wider social and educational implications of different assessment procedures are reviewed. This book will help to promote discussion among professionals involved in all stages of assessment.

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Assessment: Problems, Developments and Statistical Issues Edited by Harvey Goldstein and Toby Lewis Assessment can be used for job appraisal, performance evaluation, professional certification and examining students. The book reviews the wider social and educational implications of different assessment procedures. The statistical and non-statistical properties of assessment are addressed: chapters discuss whether assessment is objective measurement or subjective judgement and what the aims of assessment are, whether for diagnosis and feedback, for certification or for institutional accountability. Experts from various areas of assessment have contributed chapters covering bias, comparison of institutions, statistical analysis of institution based assessments, integrity of public examinations, standards in examinations, errors in grading, moderation procedures, assessment in the workplace, vocational assessment, international comparisons, the history of assessment, the influence of assessment on learning, and the educational testing industry. The intended audience is international, and includes teachers, educationists, policy-makers and personnel managers. Cover photograph: © Chris Donaghue: The Oxford Photo Library Contents Preface List of Contributors Biographies of Contributors

1. The Scope of Assessment Harvey Goldstein and Toby Lewis
2. Assessment: Some Historical Perspectives Gillian Sutherland
3. Assessment and Learning: Power or Partnership? Patricia Broadfoot
4. Statistical and Psychometric Models for Assessment Harvey Goldstein
5. Defining, Setting and Maintaining Standards in Curriculum-embedded Examinations: Judgemental and Statistical Approaches Michael J. Cresswell
6. Group Differences and Bias in Assessment Harvey Goldstein
7. Moderation Procedures and the Maintenance of Assessment Standards Toby Lewis
8. Errors in Grading and Forensic Issues in Higher Education David B. McLay
9. The Use of Assessment to Compare Institutions John Gray
10. The Statistical Analysis of Institution-based Data Geoffrey Woodhouse and Harvey Goldstein
11. The Extent and Growth of Educational Testing in the United States: 1956–1994 George F. Madaus and Anastasia E. Raczek
12. The Integrity of Public Examinations in Developing Countries Vincent Greaney and Thomas Kellaghan
13. Large-scale Assessment Programmes in Different Countries and International Comparisons Leslie D. McLean
14. Vocational Assessment Alison Wolf
15. Assessment in the Workplace Roderic Vincent

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471956686
• ISBN 13: 9780471956686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Goldstein Harvey, Lewis Toby