Educators' handbook on effective testing / Myles I. Friedman ... [et al.] ; foreword by Lawrence W. Lezotte. - Columbia, SC : Institute for Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Education, 2003. - xxiv, 880 p. ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

User's guide -- Admission testing and decision making. College admission tests -- Admission to the education professsion: certification tests -- Early childhood admission tests -- Placement testing and decision-making. Placement tests -- Instructional prescription testing and decision-making. Reading tests -- Mathematics tests -- Spoken and written language tests -- Achievement certification testing and decision-making. Multi-skill academic achievement tests -- Individual-skill academic achievement tests -- Referral testing and decision-making. Observable manifestations and observational assessments -- Informal testing procedures -- Formal testing procedures using published tests -- Criteria for evaluating educational practices. Evidence-based criteria by area -- Standards as criteria.

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Educational tests and measurements--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Educational tests and measurements--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

LB 3051 / .E395 2003