Measuring Growth in Educational Settings

List of contents

Conceptual Foundations. The Concept of Measurement in Education. The Concept of Growth. Developmental Score Scales. When Is a Developmental Score Scale Needed and When Is It Not? Design. Calibration. Evaluation. Interpretation. Maintaining the Scale Over Time. Modeling Growth. Growth Trajectory Models. Ordinal (Categorical) Growth Models. Normative Growth Models. Value-Added Models.

Summary

This book is about the process of measuring and evaluating student growth in educational settings. Using large-scale assessments to measure student growth has increasingly become a major point of emphasis in systems of educational accountability. The complete process of designing, calibrating, evaluating, interpreting, and maintaining a developmental score scale is not well understood, and with one notable exception, not well documented. The book covers conceptual foundations, developmental score scales, and modeling growth.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Briggs
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498707497
• ISBN: 978-1-4987-0749-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Assessment, Testing & Measurement, Probability & statistics, Psychological testing & measurement, Probability and statistics, Psychological testing and measurement