Tips for Improving Testing and Grading (Survival Skills for Scholars)

Using detailed examples, checklists and exercises, the authors show how to develop, use and grade classroom examinations. They provide a thorough, step-by-step discussion of general testing and grading issues, including: deciding on the content of an exam; assessing difficulty levels; writing different kinds of test items; scoring different test items; evaluating different subject areas; helping students review for an exam; and developing grading methods and strategies.

Education & Teaching

Ory, John C.

Ryan, Katherine E.

Schools & Teaching

Sage Publications, Inc.

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Bringing together the expertise of top evaluation leaders from around the world, The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluationaddressesmethods and applications in the field, particularly as they relate to policy- and decision-making in an era of globalization. The comprehensive collection of articles in the Handbook compels readers to consider globalization influences on educational evaluation within distinct genres or families of evaluation approaches.
Key Features
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<li>Discusses substantive issues surrounding globalization, and its implication for educational policy and practice and ultimately evaluation;</li>
<li>Includes state-of-the-art theory chapters and method chapters within scientific, accountability-oriented, learning-oriented, and political genres of evaluation approaches;</li>
<li>Provides real-world case exemplar chapters to illustrate core concepts within genres;</li>
<li>Extends dialogue on controversial topics and contemporary educational evaluation tensions in the context of globalization;</li>
<li>Summarizes, by means of an integration chapter, the issues, tensions and dilemmas confronting educational evaluators in an era of globalization. </li>
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Serving as a state-of-the-art resource on educational evaluation, this volume is designed for graduate students, evaluation scholars and researchers and professional evaluation practitioners with an interest in educational program and policy evaluation.

The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation

Politics & Social Sciences

Cousins, J. Bradley

Social Sciences

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