Assessment Books

New and Published Books

1. Setting Performance Standards

   Foundations, Methods, and Innovations, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Gregory J. Cizek

   Setting standards of performance is a ubiquitous task in education licensure, certification, and credentialling. It is found in elementary schooling, the professions, commercial applications, and governmental and private organizations. It is one of the most complex, controversial, and vexing issues...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
2. Approaches to Assessment that Enhance Learning in Higher Education

   Edited by Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Rebecca Rochon

   This book addresses the need to diversify mainstream forms of assessment currently used in Higher Education in order to re-establish the focus on the learning process. Making assessment central to student learning is about returning to what current research emphasises: the primary beneficiary of...

   Published August 10th 2011 by Routledge
3. Changing Schools in an Era of Globalization

   By John Chi-Kin Lee, Brian J. Caldwell

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Much has been written about globalization and the challenge of preparing young people for the new world of work and life in times of complexity and continuous change. However, few works have examined how globalization has and will continue to shape education in the East. This volume discusses...

   Published April 4th 2011 by Routledge
4. Measurement and Evaluation in Post-Secondary ESL

   By Glayol V. Ekbatani

   Practical and concise, this introductory text for language teaching professionals is a guide to ESL assessment and to fulfilling the testing component of TESOL programs in the U.S. and around the world. Covering the fundamental descriptive and quantitative facets of effective language testing, it...

   Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge
5. Handbook of Formative Assessment

   Edited by Heidi Andrade, Gregory J. Cizek

   Formative assessment has recently become a focus of renewed research as state and federal policy-makers realize that summative assessments have reached a point of diminishing returns as a tool for increasing student achievement. Consequently, supporters of large-scale testing programs are now...

   Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge
6. Improving Testing For English Language Learners

   By Rebecca Kopriva

   More than any book to date, this one provides a comprehensive approach to designing, building, implementing and interpreting test results that validly measure the academic achievement of English language learners. It scaffolds the entire process of test development and implementation and discusses...

   Published March 9th 2008 by Routledge
7. Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S.

   Undercurrents of Race, Class, and Power in the Struggle for Meaning

   By Arlette Ingram Willis

   This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically. Willis analyzes the...

   Published October 23rd 2007 by Routledge
8. Assessment of Problem Solving Using Simulations

   Edited by Eva Baker, Jan Dickieson, Wallace Wulfeck, Harold F. O'Neil

   This volume explores the application of computer simulation technology to measurement issues in education -- especially as it pertains to problem based learning. Whereas most assessments related to problem solving are based on expensive and time consuming measures (i.e., think-aloud protocols or...

   Published September 17th 2007 by Routledge
9. Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School

   A Project-Based Approach, 3rd Edition

   By Joseph Krajcik, Joseph Krajcik, Charlene Czerniak, Charlene M. Czerniak

   The need for a scientifically literate population that can apply scientific ideas to solve real world problems in the 21st century has never been greater. Yet a growing disconnect exists between this need and the educational capacity to prepare them. The mission of Teaching Science in Elementary...

   Published September 10th 2007 by Routledge
10. Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education

    Signals and Shortcomings

    By Mantz Yorke

    Series: Key Issues in Higher Education

    A lot hangs on the summative grades that students are given. A good degree opens doors which otherwise might remain closed. Yet, as higher education is now a mass rather than an elite system, what is expected of its graduates is different from the expectations of previous generations. Students are...

    Published August 23rd 2007 by Routledge