Developing and Using Tests Effectively: A Guide for Faculty (The Jossey-Bass higher & adult education series) - Hardcover

Jacobs, Lucy Cheser; Chase, Clinton I.

 
9781555424817: Developing and Using Tests Effectively: A Guide for Faculty (The Jossey-Bass higher & adult education series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1555424813 ISBN 13: 9781555424817
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1992

Synopsis

This book offers practical guidelines that faculty can use to improve their skills in the development, administration, and grading of classroom tests. It gives specific how–to advice on every stage of the testing process, from planning the test and classifying objectives to be measured to principles of grading that result in fair grades based on relevant data. It shows how faculty can write tests that are more fair and more valid, and that do a better job of measuring what their students learn––thereby improving faculty members′ abilities in the assessment of learning outcomes.

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About the Author

Lucy Cheser Jacobs is director of the Bureau of Evaluative Studies and Testing at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she has also served as assistant professor in the educational psychology department.

From the Back Cover

This book offers practical guidelines that faculty can use to improve their skills in the development, administration, and grading of classroom tests. It gives specific how–to advice on every stage of the testing process, from planning the test and classifying objectives to be measured to principles of grading that result in fair grades based on relevant data. It shows how faculty can write tests that are more fair and more valid, and that do a better job of measuring what their students learn––thereby improving faculty members′ abilities in the assessment of learning outcomes.

From the Inside Flap

This book offers practical guidelines that faculty can use to improve their skills in the development, administration, and grading of classroom tests. It gives specific how–to advice on every stage of the testing process, from planning the test and classifying objectives to be measured to principles of grading that result in fair grades based on relevant data. It shows how faculty can write tests that are more fair and more valid, and that do a better job of measuring what their students learn––thereby improving faculty members′ abilities in the assessment of learning outcomes.

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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1555424813
ISBN 13 
9781555424817
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
322