Explore
Advancing Human Assessment: The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS
This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world’s leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book’s four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific psychology, and validity. Many of the developments presented have become de-facto standards in educational and psychological measurement, including in item response theory (IRT), linking and equating, differential item functioning (DIF), and educational surveys like the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Programme of international Student Assessment (PISA), the Progress of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In addition to its comprehensive coverage of contributions to the theory and methodology of educational and psychological measurement and statistics, the book gives significant attention to ETS work in cognitive, personality, developmental, and social psychology, and to education policy analysis and program evaluation. The chapter authors are long-standing experts who provide broad coverage and thoughtful insights that build upon decades of experience in research and best practices for measurement, evaluation, scientific psychology, and education policy analysis. Opening with a chapter on the genesis of ETS and closing with a synthesis of the enormously diverse set of contributions made over its 70-year history, the book is a useful resource for all interested in the improvement of human assessment.
This book is included in DOAB.
Why read this book? Have your say.
You must be logged in to comment.
Rights Information
Are you the author or publisher of this work? If so, you can claim it as yours by registering as an Unglue.it rights holder.Downloads
- 15 - epub (CC BY-NC) at Unglue.it.
- 15 - pdf (CC BY-NC) at Unglue.it.
- 117 - mobi (CC BY-NC) at Unglue.it.
- 128 - epub (CC BY-NC) at Unglue.it.
Keywords
- admissions tests
- adult literacy
- constructed-response
- Developmental psychology
- Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- human assessment
- item analysis
- item response theory (IRT)
- large-scale assessment
- longitudinal studies of educational growth
- NAEP
- open access
- personality psychology
- policy research
- Program Evaluation
- psychometrics
- score linking
- test analysis
- test fairness
- validity theory
Links
web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-58689-2Editions