Principles of Educational and Psychological Measurement and Evaluation

This edition continues Sax's tradition of comprehensive and comprehensible coverage of testing and measurement principles while including the most recent theory and research.

Preface. PART ONE: MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION IN EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY. 1. The Role of Measurement, Testing, and Evalustion. 2. Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of Testing. PART TWO: PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF CLASSROOM TEST CONSTRUCTION. 3. Planning for the Teacher-Made Test. 4. Principles of Test Construction: True-False, Multiple-Choice, and Matching Items. 5. Principles of Test Construction: Completion and Essay Tests. 6. Ratings, Observations, and the Measurement of Performance. PART THREE: SUMMARIZING AND INTERPRETING MEASUREMENTS. 7. Summarizing and Interpreting Measurements. PART FOUR: CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING ITEMS, TESTS, AND MEASUREMENTS. 8. Evaluating Items: Item Analysis and Interpretations. 9. The Reliability of Measurements. 10. The Validity of Inferences Obtained from Tests and Measurements. PART FIVE: SELECTING, EVALUATING, AND USING STANDARDIZED TESTS. 11. Standards for Selecting and Evaluating Standardized Tests. 12. The Nature and Measurement of Intelligence. 13. The Measurement of Aptitudes. 14. Standardized Measures of Academic Achievement. 15. The Measurement of Interests, Attitudes, and Values. 16. The Measurement of Personality Traits. PART SIX: EVALUATING STUDENTS AND PROGRAMS. 17. Evaluating Student Progress. 18. Evaluation Strategies.Glossary. Appendix 1. Computation of a Mean from a Frequency Distribution. Appendix 2. Computation of a Standard Deviation and Variance from a Frequency Distribution. Appendix 3. Computation of Medians, Percentiles, Quartiles, and Deciles from a Frequency Distribution. Appendix 4. Graphic Methods for Converting Raw Scores to Medians, Percentiles, Quartiles, and Deciles from a Frequency Distribution. Appendix 5. A Raw-Score Formula for Computing Correlations. Appendix 6. Computation of Rank-Order Correlations (Rho, or r). Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.