02986cam a22003374a 4500 1009 1009 13910548 OSt 20190830142610.0 050324s2006 caua b 001 0 eng 2005008155 1412913632 (cloth) 1412913640 (pbk.) DLC DLC DLC pcc LB3051 .S243 2006 371.26 SAL 23 Salkind, Neil J. Tests & measurement for people who (think they) hate tests & measurement / Neil J. Salkind. Tests and measurement for people who (think they) hate tests and measurement Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2006. xxiii, 371 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 357) and index. A Note to the Student: Why I Wrote This Book Acknowledgments Part I. In the Beginning ... 1. Why Me-asurement? An Introduction Part II. The Psychology of Psychometrics 2. One Potato, Two Potatoes ... Levels of Measurement and Their Importance 3. Getting It Right Every Time: Reliability and Its Importance 4. The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: Validity and Its Importance 5. Welcome to Lake Woebegone, Where All the Children Are Above Average: Norms and Percentiles Part III. The Tao and How of Testing 6. Short Answer and Completion Items: Baskin Robbins(R) Has __ Flavors 7. Essay Items: Hope You Can Write 8. Multiple-Choice Items: Always Pick Answer C and You'll Be Right About 25% of the Time 9. Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Matching Items 10. True-False Tests: T or F? I Passed My First Measurement Test 11. Portfolios: Seeing the Big Picture 12. So, Tell Me About Your Childhood: Interesting Interviews Part IV. What to Test and How to Test It 13. Achievement Tests: Who Really Discovered America? 14. Personality Tests: Type A, Type B, or Type C? 15. Aptitude Tests: What's in Store for Me? 16. Intelligence Tests: That Rubik's Cube Is Driving Me Nuts 17. Career Choices: So You Want to Be a What? Part V. It's Not Always As You Think: Issues in Tests and Measurements 18. Test Bias: Fair for Everyone? 19. The Law, Testing, and Ethics: No Child (Should Be) Left Behind and Other Concerns Appendixes Appendix A: Your Tests and Measurement Toolkit Appendix B: The Guide to (Almost) Every Test in the Universe Glossary References Index About the Author Educational tests and measurements. Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0657/2005008155-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0657/2005008155-t.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2005008155-b.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc STS 0 0 ddc 0 0 16/2 AIISH AIISH 2019-08-30 0 371.26 SAL 14604 2019-08-30 00:00:00 2019-08-30 STS