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The First Five Years of Teaching Mathematics (FIRSTMATH)

Concepts, Methods and Strategies for Comparative International Research

By: Maria Teresa Tatto,Michael C. Rodriguez,Mark D. Reckase,Wendy M. Smith,Kiril Bankov,James Pippin

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The First Five Years of Teaching Mathematics (FIRSTMATH)

Concepts, Methods and Strategies for Comparative International Research

By: Maria Teresa Tatto,Michael C. Rodriguez,Mark D. Reckase,Wendy M. Smith,Kiril Bankov,James Pippin

This book reports on an innovative study into the first five years of mathematics teaching: FIRSTMATH. For the first time, the study has developed a viable methodology to analyze the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of beginning mathematics teachers as well as instruments to explore the contexts where they work. The book provides a step by step account of this exploratory (proof-of-concept) research study, using a comparative and international approach, and introduces readers to the challenges entailed. The FIRSTMATH study promises the development of methods and strategies to make it possible for teacher educators and future teachers to examine (and improve on) their own practices in an important STEM area.

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Springer Nature

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3030440478

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Constructing Measures

An Item Response Modeling Approach

By: Mark Wilson

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Constructing Measures

An Item Response Modeling Approach

By: Mark Wilson

Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments, how to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones. The book is organized around the steps taken while constructing an instrument. It opens with a summary of the constructive steps involved. Each step is then expanded on in the next four chapters. These chapters develop the "building blocks" that make up an instrument--the construct map, the design plan for the items, the outcome space, and the statistical measurement model. The next three chapters focus on quality control. They rely heavily on the calibrated construct map and review how to check if scores are operating consistently and how to evaluate the reliability and validity evidence. The book introduces a variety of item formats, including multiple-choice, open-ended, and performance items; projects; portfolios; Likert and Guttman items; behavioral observations; and interview protocols. Each chapter includes an overview of the key concepts, related resources for further investigation and exercises and activities. Some chapters feature appendices that describe parts of the instrument development process in more detail, numerical manipulations used in the text, and/or data results. A variety of examples from the behavioral and social sciences and education including achievement and performance testing; attitude measures; health measures, and general sociological scales, demonstrate the application of the material. An accompanying downloadable resources feature control files, output, and a data set to allow readers to compute the text's exercises and create new analyses and case archives based on the book's examples so the reader can work through the entire development of an instrument. Constructing Measures is an ideal text or supplement in courses on item, test, or instrument development, measurement, item response theory, or rasch analysis taught in a variety of departments including education and psychology. The book also appeals to those who develop instruments, including industrial/organizational, educational, and school psychologists, health outcomes researchers, program evaluators, and sociological measurers. Knowledge of basic descriptive statistics and elementary regression is recommended.

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236

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Routledge

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1135618046

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9781135618049

Objective Measurement

Theory Into Practice, Volume 2

By: Mark R. Wilson

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Objective Measurement

Theory Into Practice, Volume 2

By: Mark R. Wilson

This is the second volume in the series that focuses on the International Objective Measurement Workshops and the work of Georg Rasch. In the area of practice, two major clusters of new work are reported in this volume: a national pilot study of computer-adaptive testing in professional licensure and applications of a type of Rasch model called the Facet Model.

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350

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313390622

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9780313390623

The Psychometrics of Standard Setting

Connecting Policy and Test Scores

By: Mark Reckase

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The Psychometrics of Standard Setting

Connecting Policy and Test Scores

By: Mark Reckase

This book provides a unifying structure for the activities that fall under the process typically called "standard setting" on tests of proficiency. Standard setting refers to the methodology used to identify performance standards on tests of proficiency. The results from standard setting studies are critical for supporting the use of many types of tests. The process is frequently applied to educational, psychological, licensure/certification, and other types of tests and examination systems. The literature on procedures for standard setting is extensive, but the methodology for standard setting has evolved in a haphazard way over many decades without a unifying theory to support the evaluation of the methods and the validation of inferences made from the standards. This text provides a framework for going beyond specific standard setting methods to gain an understanding of the goals for the methods and how to evaluate whether the goals have been achieved. The unifying structure provided in this text considers policy that calls for the existence of performance standards, the relationship of proficiency test design to the policy, and tasks assigned to subject matter experts to help them convert the policy to estimates of locations on the reporting score scale for the test. Guidance is provided for how to connect the psychometric aspects of the standard setting process to the intentions of policy makers as expressed in policy statements. Further, the structure is used support validity arguments for inferences made when using standards. Examples are provided to show how the unifying structure can be used to evaluate and improve standard setting methodology.

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275

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CRC Press

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149872213X

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9781498722131

Multidimensional Item Response Theory

By: M.D. Reckase

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Multidimensional Item Response Theory

By: M.D. Reckase

First thorough treatment of multidimensional item response theory Description of methods is supported by numerous practical examples Describes procedures for multidimensional computerized adaptive testing

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387899766

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9780387899763

The First Five Years of Teaching Mathematics (FIRSTMATH)

Concepts, Methods and Strategies for Comparative International Research

By: Maria Teresa Tatto,Michael C. Rodriguez,Mark D. Reckase,Wendy M. Smith,Kiril Bankov,James Pippin

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The First Five Years of Teaching Mathematics (FIRSTMATH)

Concepts, Methods and Strategies for Comparative International Research

By: Maria Teresa Tatto,Michael C. Rodriguez,Mark D. Reckase,Wendy M. Smith,Kiril Bankov,James Pippin

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The First Five Years of Teaching Mathematics (FIRSTMATH)

The First Five Years of Teaching Mathematics (FIRSTMATH)

Constructing Measures

Constructing Measures

Objective Measurement

Objective Measurement

The Psychometrics of Standard Setting

The Psychometrics of Standard Setting

Multidimensional Item Response Theory

Multidimensional Item Response Theory

The First Five Years of Teaching Mathematics (FIRSTMATH)

The First Five Years of Teaching Mathematics (FIRSTMATH)

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