Assessment & Testing Books

New and Published Books

1. Addressing Issues of Access and Fairness in Education through Dynamic Assessment

   Edited by Matthew E Poehner, Pauline Rea-Dickins

   Increased emphasis in many school systems on formal testing to mark student achievement and hold teachers accountable has begun to heighten concern among many educational policy makers, assessment specialists, and classroom teachers over questions of access and fairness, particularly for learners...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Contemporary Psychometrics

   Edited by Albert Maydeu-Olivares, John J. McArdle

   Series: Multivariate Applications Series

   Contemporary Psychometrics features cutting edge chapters organized in four sections: test theory, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and multivariate analysis. The section on test theory includes topics such as multidimensional item response theory (IRT), the relationship between IRT...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
3. Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation

   Current Applications and New Directions

   Edited by Mark D. Shermis, Jill Burstein

   This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies. Highlights include the latest in the evaluation of performance-based writing assessments and recent advances in the teaching of writing,...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. Frontiers of Test Validity Theory

   Measurement, Causation, and Meaning

   By Keith A. Markus, Denny Borsboom

   Series: Multivariate Applications Series

   This book examines test validity in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences by exploring three fundamental problems: measurement, causation and meaning. Psychometric and philosophical perspectives receive attention along with unresolved issues. The authors explore how measurement is...

   Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
5. Developing and Validating Test Items

   By Thomas M. Haladyna, Michael C. Rodriguez

   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...

   Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Understanding Early Years Inequality

   Policy, assessment and young children's identities

   By Alice Bradbury

   Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus on issues of inequality. Drawing on accounts of life in early years classrooms, Alice Bradbury suggests that a...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
7. Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences

   By Norman Cliff, John A. Keats

   This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies. It is based on the assumptions of ordinal statistics as explained in Norman Cliff's 1996 Ordinal Methods for Behavioral Data Analysis. It provides the...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
8. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners

   Instructional Strategies and Assessment Tools for School Psychologists

   By Holly S. Hudspath-Niemi, Mary Lou Conroy

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
9. Invariant Measurement

   Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

   By George Engelhard Jr.

   This introductory text describes the principles of invariant measurement, how invariant measurement can be achieved with Rasch models, and how to use invariant measurement to solve measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Rasch models are used throughout but a comparison...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
10. Assessment of Young Children with Special Needs

    A Context-Based Approach, 2nd Edition

    By Susan M. Benner, Joan Grim

    Assessment of Young Children with Special Needs, Second Edition helps prepare teachers for the task of evaluating the skills of infants, toddlers, and preschool children with developmental delays and those considered at risk to experience developmental delays or difficulties. A child’s environment...

    Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge