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Implementation of large-scale education assessments /

Presents a comprehensive treatment of issues related to the inception, design, implementation and reporting of large-scale education assessments. In recent years many countries have decided to become involved in international educational assessments to allow them to ascertain the strengths and weakn...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Lietz, Petra (Author), Cresswell, John, 1950- (Author), Rust, Keith (Author), Adams, Raymond J., 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Series:Wiley series in probability and statistics
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Implementation of large-scale education assessments
  • Test design and objectives
  • Test development
  • Design, development and implementation of contextual questionnaires in large-scale assessments
  • Sample design, weighting, and calculation of sampling variance
  • Translation and cultural appropriateness of survey material in large scale assessments
  • Quality assurance
  • Processing responses to open-ended survey questions
  • Computer-based delivery of cognitive assessment and questionnaires
  • Data management procedures
  • Test implementation in the field : the case of PASEC
  • Test implementation in the field : the experience of Chile in international large scale assessments
  • Why large scale assessments use scaling and item response theory
  • Describing learning growth
  • Scaling of questionnaire data in international large-scale assessments
  • Database production for large-scale educational assessments
  • Dissemination and reporting.