Here's a book intended to help readers develop better test questions -- aimed at measuring their students' (or future students') higher level thinking abilities such as writing, reading, mathematical or scientific problem solving, critical thinking, and creative thinking. This book is practical in its approach -- replete with examples -- and focuses on many different question types with the main objective being to select the item type most appropriate for the material being measured. It covers multiple-choice items, designing performance test items, creating and scoring portfolios, and writing survey items. Item-writing templates are provided in each chapter. Preservice and inservice teachers.

Writing Test Items to Evaluate Higher Order Thinking

Education & Teaching

Haladyna, Thomas M.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

B&gt; How do we grade our students? As simple as this question seems, there is much more to grading than simply writing a letter or number on a class roster or entering it in a report card. This book gives you a complete answer to this question. It will help you better understand why you grade, the importance of grades, how to effectively communicate with your students about grading, and how you will assign grades. When grading is done well, students know what to expect and can perform accordingly, thereby fulfilling your wish to see them succeed. Chapters include: Absolute Standards; Pass/Fail Methods; Mastery Grading; Self-Paced Learning and Evaluation; Blanket Grading;Hybrid Methods; and How to Design A Grading System. For any educator.

Complete Guide to Student Grading, A

Allyn&Bacon

This book examines standardized achievement testing in critical terms with the notion that students should be tested in ways that benefit them and their learning. This book seeks to increase readers' understanding of standardized testing so that they will become intelligent consumers, and is organized around the central issues of interpretation, usage, and consequences of testing. Focused on issues, and based on the most current research and practice. This material offers educators, administrators and policy makers information critical to success in today's classroom. Market: K-12 Faculty and Administrators, Parent Teacher Coordinators.

Essentials of Standardized Achievement Testing: Validity and Accountablilty

Developing and Validating Test Items

Since test items are the building blocks of any test, learning how to develop and validate test items has always been critical to the teaching-learning process. As they grow in importance and use, testing programs increasingly supplement the use of selected-response (multiple-choice) items with constructed-response formats. This trend is expected to continue. As a result, a new item writing book is needed, one that provides comprehensive coverage of both types of items and of the validity theory underlying them. This book is an outgrowth of the author’s previous book, Developing and Validating Multiple-Choice Test Items, 3e (Haladyna, 2004). That book achieved distinction as the leading source of guidance on creating and validating selected-response test items. Like its predecessor, the content of this new book is based on both an extensive review of the literature and on its author’s long experience in the testing field. It is very timely in this era of burgeoning testing programs, especially when these items are delivered in a computer-based environment. Key features include … Comprehensive and Flexible – No other book so thoroughly covers the field of test item development and its various applications. Focus on Validity – Validity, the most important consideration in testing, is stressed throughout and is based on the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, currently under revision by AERA, APA, and NCME Illustrative Examples – The book presents various selected and constructed response formats and uses many examples to illustrate correct and incorrect ways of writing items. Strategies for training item writers and developing large numbers of items using algorithms and other item-generating methods are also presented. Based on Theory and Research – A comprehensive review and synthesis of existing research runs throughout the book and complements the expertise of its authors.

Rodriguez, Michael C.

Routledge

Business & Money

Education & Reference

This is the most current and comprehensive book devoted to item writing. It addresses the related topics of multiple-choice test item development and validation of responses to these test items -- two critical steps in the development of any cognitive test. In so doing, the volume provides a conceptual basis for item writing, reviews the issue of constructed- versus selected-response testing, presents a variety of formats, provides guidance in developing items as well as a basis for reviewing, evaluating, and improving items, and speculates about the future of item development and validation. This book helps readers better understand the concepts, principles, and procedures available to build better test items that will lead to more reliable tests of ability and achievement.

Developing and Validating Multiple-choice Test Items

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

This book is the most comprehensive treatment of the rationale and rules for multiple-choice item writing, the most useful format for measuring, and the research behind it. Treating the study of item responses in the framework of validity theory, this book: provides a conceptual basis for item writing; reviews the issue of constructed- versus selected-response testing; presents a variety of formats; provides guidance in developing items; offers a basis for reviewing, evaluating, and improving items; and speculates about the future of item development and validation.

This book is intended for anyone who is seriously interested in designing and validating multiple-choice test items that measure understanding and the application of knowledge and skills to complex situations, such as critical thinking and problem solving. The most comprehensive and authoritative book in its field, this edition has been extensively revised to include: *more information about writing items that match content standards; *more information about creating item pools and item banking; *a new set of item-writing rules (with examples) in chapter 5, as well as guidelines for other multiple-choice formats; *hundreds of examples including an expanded chapter 4 devoted to exemplary item formats and a new chapter 6 containing exemplary items (with author annotations); *a chapter on item generation (chapter 7) featuring item modeling and other procedures that speed up item development; and *a more extensive set of references to past and current work in the area of multiple-choice item writing and validation. This book will be of interest to anyone who develops test items for large-scale assessments, as well as teachers and graduate students who desire the most comprehensive and authoritative information on the design and validation of multiple-choice test items.

Traditionally, resources on terrorism and counterterrorism tend to focus on the social, behavioral, and legal aspects of the subject, with minimal emphasis on the scientific and technological aspects. Taking into account these practical considerations, the second edition of Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism discusses the nature of terrorism and the materials used by terrorists. It describes how intelligence professionals and law enforcement personnel can detect and destroy these materials, and how they can deal with terrorist groups. This volume begins by introducing the shift in analysis of terrorist attacks after September 11, 2001 and summarizes selected case studies. It discusses the origin and nature of terrorism and the factors involved in diplomacy. Covering a broad range of topics, the book examines: <ul>
<li>Aerosol dispersion of toxic materials</li> <li>Bioterrorism and the manufacture, detection, and delivery of biological agents</li> <li>Agricultural terrorism</li> <li>Nuclear terrorism and nuclear weapons systems, threats, and safeguards</li> <li>Chemical terrorism, including manufacture, detection, delivery, and decontamination</li> <li>Cyber-terrorism</li> <li>Personal protective equipment</li> <li>The role of government at federal, state, and local levels</li> <li>The role of international agencies and their resources, capabilities, and responsibilities</li> <li>The National Infrastructure Protection Plan</li> </ul> As terrorist activities increase globally, it is critical that those charged with protecting the public understand the myriad of ways in which terrorists operate. While we cannot predict where, when, and how terrorists will strike, our vigilance in staying abreast of the terrorist threat is the only way to have a fighting chance against those who seek to destroy our world.

Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism (Public Administration and Public Policy)

Economics

CRC-Press

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Writing Test Items to Evaluate Higher Order Thinking

Complete Guide to Student Grading, A

Essentials of Standardized Achievement Testing: Validity and Accountablilty

Developing and Validating Test Items

Developing and Validating Test Items

Developing and Validating Multiple-choice Test Items

Developing and Validating Multiple-choice Test Items

Developing and Validating Multiple-choice Test Items

Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism (Public Administration and Public Policy)

Developing and Validating Multiple-choice Test Items