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Informationen zum Autor Bruce B. Frey , PhD, is an award-winning researcher, author, teacher, and professor of educational psychology at the University of Kansas. He is the editor of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation and the SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Design. In addition to being the lead author for The Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics series, his books for SAGE include There’s a Stat for That!, Modern Classroom Assessment, and 100 Questions (and Answers) About Tests and Measurement. He also wrote Statistics Hacks for O’Reilly Media. In his spare time, Bruce leads a secret life as Professor Bubblegum, host of a YouTube channel and Echo Valley, a podcast that celebrates bubblegum pop music of the late 1960s. The show is wildly popular with the young people. Klappentext 100 Questions (and) Answers About Tests and Measurement asks (and answers) important questions about the world of social science measurement. It serves as an introduction for students new to the concepts, advanced students and professionals who could use a review of measurement ideas and procedures, and to anyone interested in knowing more about a test they have to take and interpreting the score they will receive. Zusammenfassung An introductory text for students new to the concepts of social science measurement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments About the Author I. THE BASICS 1. So, What Is 100 Questions (and Answers) About Tests and Measurement About? 3. What Exactly Is Measurement? 2. What Exactly Is a Test? 4. Most of the Ways I Can Think Of to Measure Something Seem Pretty Straightforward. What Are the Important Differences Between Measuring Something Like Weight and Something More Abstract Like Knowledge? 5. What Are Some of the Different Types of Tests, and How Are They Used? 6. What Are the Different Ways to Interpret a Test Score? 7. What Are the Different Ways to Judge Whether a Test Is Any Good? II. UNDERSTANDING VALIDITY 8. What Does It Mean to Say That a Test Is Valid? 9. What Is Content Validity, Why Is It Important, and How Is It Established? 10. What Is Criterion Validity, Why Is It Important, and How Is It Established? 11. What Is Construct Validity, Why Is It Important, and How Is It Established? 12. What Is Consequential Validity, Why Is It Important, and How Is It Established? 13. What Does It Mean to Say a Test Is Biased? 14. What Does Evidence of Test Bias Look Like? 15. Some Types of Validity Evidence Must Be More Important for Some Types of Tests, but Not Important for Other Types of Tests. What's the General Strategy for Making an Argument for the Validity of a Test? 16. I Need to Build a Test. How Can I Make Sure It Is Valid? III. UNDERSTANDING RELIABILITY 17. What Is Reliability, and How Is It Different From Validity? 18. What Are the Different Types of Reliability? 19. If the Traditional Way of Thinking About Reliability Is Called the Classical Theory, That Suggests There Is a More Contemporary Way of Thinking About Things. What Has Come Since? 20. What Are the Important Differences Between Classical and Item Response Theory 21. What Does Internal Reliability Look Like? 22. What Does Test-Retest Reliability Look Like? 23. What Does Inter-rater Reliability Look Like? 24. Other Than the Three Main Types of Reliability, Are There Others? 25. How Are Reliability and Validity Related to Each Other? 26. Some Types of Reliability Evidence Must Be More Important for Some Types of Tests, but Not Important for Other Types of Tests. What's the General Strategy for Making an Argument for the Reliability of a Test? 27. I Need to Build a Test. How Can I Make Sure It Is ...
