Handbook on testing

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Handbook on testing

edited by Ronna F. Dillon

Greenwood Press, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Handbook on Testing highlights major work in educational, psychological, technical, and occupational testing in public and private sectors. Theoretical issues in measurement are discussed. Standards for tests and testing professionals are described. In addition, a range of test environments, testing programs, and groups of examinees are included. A variety of suggestions for improving the use of tests for selection and classification are given. Examples of programs linking testing with training are also provided, and the use of tests to promote learning is described. Researchers in the field of testing have witnessed recent significant changes in test development and test administration procedures. The motivation for such changes lies in revised conceptions of intelligence as well as modifications in testing technologies. The Handbook on Testing is the largest treatise in testing and contains among the most important testing work, including new undertakings on a range of test administration methods, types of abilities, and measures taken from tests. Issues of test theory and standards are discussed. New work in intelligence testing is also included. In addition, the mechanisms and use of dynamic assessment and learning tests are considered. Several large-scale testing programs are reviewed, including predictor and criterion development work in the military, private sector employment testing, and testing for admission to medical school. The link between assessment and instruction is highlighted in several chapters, including coverage in special education testing.

Table of Contents

Preface A New Era in Testing by Ronna F. Dillon Measurement Principles for the New Generation of Tests: A Quiet Revolution by Susan E. Embretson Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests and Testing Professionals by Ruth B. Ekstrom, Patricia B. Elmore, and William D. Schafer What Makes an Aptitude Test Valid? by Malcolm J. Ree and Thomas R. Carretta The History of Intelligence Testing in Context: The Impact of Personal, Religious, and Scientific Beliefs on the Development of Theories and Tests of Human Abilities by David Lohman Ability Profiles by Jan-Eric Gustafsson and Richard E. Snow Intelligence Revised: The Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive (PASS) Cognitive Processing Theory by Jack A. Naglieri and J. P. Das Dynamic Testing by Ronna F. Dillon Army Alpha to CAT-ASVAB: Four-Score Years of Military Personnel Selection and Classification Testing by Brian K. Waters The Use of Computerized Adaptive Testing in the Military by Kathleen E. Moreno, Daniel O. Segall, and Rebecca Hetter Steps Toward an Improved Pilot Selection Battery by William C. Tirre Criterion Development in Project A by Lawrence Hanser Medical School Admissions Testing by Judith A. Koenig and Andrew Wiley Assessment of Individuals with Disabilities: Educational Utility or Social Futility? by Sidney R. Miller and Pamela F. Miller Employment Testing in Private Industry by Wanda J. Campbell and David J. Kleinke Using Tests to Promote Classroom Learning by Frank N. Dempster Smart Testing by Patrick C. Kyllonen References

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