04491cam a22003254a 4500999001300000001000900013003000400022005001700026008004100043010001700084020002200101040001800123042000800141050002200149082001900171100003300190245010200223260004800325300003300373504006000406505322000466650006803686650004503754700002203799856008303821856009103904906004503995942001304040952011204053 c948d94813926118OSt20190830111955.0050411s2006 caua b 001 0 eng  a 2005008152 a1412910021 (pbk.) aDLCcDLCdDLC apcc00aLB3051b.K87 200600a371.26 KUR2221 aKurpius, Sharon E. Robinson.10aTesting and measurement :ba user-friendly guide /cSharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Mary E. Stafford. aThousand Oaks :bSage Publications,cc2006. axv, 183 p. :bill. ;c25 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171) and index. aList of Figures List of Tables A Note to Students Acknowledgments 1. What Is a Number? Is a Rose Always a Rose? Numbers and Scales Some Final Thoughts About Scales of Measurement Numbers and Response Formats Some Final Thoughts About Response Formats Numbers and Test Scores--How Do They Relate? Some Final Thoughts About Measurement Scales and Response Formats Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Words of Encouragement 2. Frequencies: One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four Ungrouped Frequency Distributions Grouped Frequency Distributions Cumulative Frequency Distribution Some Final Thoughts About Frequency Distributions Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Words of Encouragement 3. The Distribution of Test Scores--The Perfect Body? Kurtosis Skewness Some Final Thoughts About Distribution of Test Scores Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Words of Encouragement 4. Central Tendencies and Dispersion--Coming Together or Growing Apart Central Tendencies--The Inner Core of the Normal Curve The Mode The Median Medians and Modes for Grouped Frequency Data The Mean Some Final Points About Central Tendency Dispersion--Not All Bodies Are the Same Range Deviation Scores Variance Standard Deviation Means and Standard Deviations in the Real World Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Your New Best Friend--SPSS Words of Encouragement 5. Standardized Scores--Do You Measure Up? Percentiles--What They Mean in Measurement Percentile Ranks for Grouped Data Some Final Thoughts About Percentile Ranks Z Scores Why Transform a Raw Score to a Z Score? Other Standard Scores Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Your New Best Friend-SPSS Words of Encouragement 6. Norms and Criterion Scores--Keeping Up With the Joneses or Not Criterion-Referenced Tests--Do You Know as Much as You Should? Norm-Referenced Tests--Dying to Fit In Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Words of Encouragement 7. Error Scores--The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth? Test Theory Test-Theory Assumptions Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Words of Encouragement 8. Building a Strong Test--One the Big Bad Wolf Can't Blow Down Item Difficulty Some Final Thoughts About Item Difficulty Item Discrimination Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Words of Encouragement 9. Reliability--The Same Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow The Mathematical Foundation of Reliability Types of Reliability Estimates Standard Error of Measurement Correlation Coefficients as Measures of Reliability Some Final Thoughts About Reliability Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Words of Encouragement 10. Validity--What You See Is Not Always What You Get Helping You Get What You See Sources of Validity Evidence The Marriage of Reliability and Validity--Wedded Bliss Interpreting the Validity of Tests--Intended and Unintended Consequences Some Final Thoughts About Validity Key Terms Models and Self-instructional Exercises Words of Encouragement 11. The Perils and Pitfalls of Testing--Being Ethical Your Own Competence Rights of Those Being Tested Potential Dangers Ryan's Rights Appendix References Index About the Authors 0aEducational tests and measurementsxStudy and teaching (Higher) 0aMeasurementxStudy and teaching (Higher)1 aStafford, Mary E.413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005008152.html423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0657/2005008152-d.html a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg 2ddccSTS 00102ddc4070816/1aAIISHbAIISHd2019-08-30l0o371.26 KURp14609r2019-08-30 00:00:00w2019-08-30ySTS