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- catalog abstract ""It is estimated that up to 20 percent of a professor's time is spent evaluating the impact of instruction. Yet most faculty receive little formal training in classroom testing or other means of determining which students have attained course objectives and which have not. Developing and Using Tests Effectively offers practical guidelines that faculty members can use to improve their skills in the development, administration, and grading of classroom tests." "This book offers specific how-to advice on every stage of the testing process, including planning the test and classifying objectives to be measured, ensuring the validity and reliability of the test, and grading to arrive at fair grades based on relevant data." "Lucy Jacobs and Clinton Chase examine the strengths and weaknesses of many types of tests, including both traditional (multiple-choice, true-false, matching, completion, and essays) and alternative (take-home, open-book, and oral) assessment procedures. For every testing procedure, they show how faculty members can write tests that are fairer and more valid and that do a better job of measuring what students learn - thereby improving faculty members' ability to assess learning outcomes." "The authors reveal, for example, how essay tests may often measure only the skill of the grader in assessing what the writer has said - and offer suggestions for improving the instructor's skill in reading essays and scoring them reliably. They discuss the problem of cheating and suggest ways to deal with it. They examine the advantages and limitations of using computers for classroom testing. And they describe such alternative assessment procedures as portfolios, journals, and peer testing."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3929483.
- catalog contributor b3929484.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""It is estimated that up to 20 percent of a professor's time is spent evaluating the impact of instruction. Yet most faculty receive little formal training in classroom testing or other means of determining which students have attained course objectives and which have not. Developing and Using Tests Effectively offers practical guidelines that faculty members can use to improve their skills in the development, administration, and grading of classroom tests." "This book offers specific how-to advice on every stage of the testing process, including planning the test and classifying objectives to be measured, ensuring the validity and reliability of the test, and grading to arrive at fair grades based on relevant data." "Lucy Jacobs and Clinton Chase examine the strengths and weaknesses of many types of tests, including both traditional (multiple-choice, true-false, matching, completion, and essays) and alternative (take-home, open-book, and oral) assessment procedures. For every testing procedure, they show how faculty members can write tests that are fairer and more valid and that do a better job of measuring what students learn - thereby improving faculty members' ability to assess learning outcomes." "The authors reveal, for example, how essay tests may often measure only the skill of the grader in assessing what the writer has said - and offer suggestions for improving the instructor's skill in reading essays and scoring them reliably. They discuss the problem of cheating and suggest ways to deal with it. They examine the advantages and limitations of using computers for classroom testing. And they describe such alternative assessment procedures as portfolios, journals, and peer testing."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.".
- catalog description "Testing in the college classroom -- Planning the test -- Reliability and validity -- Multiple-choice items -- True-false, matching, and completion items -- Essay examinations -- Alternative assessment procedures -- Administration of the test -- Computer-assisted testing -- Item analysis -- Grading.".
- catalog extent "xx, 231 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Developing and using tests effectively.".
- catalog identifier "1555424813 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Developing and using tests effectively.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Developing and using tests effectively.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "378.1/661 20".
- catalog subject "Educational Measurement methods.".
- catalog subject "LB 2366.2 J17d 1992".
- catalog subject "LB2366.2 .J33 1992".
- catalog subject "Teaching.".
- catalog subject "Universities and colleges United States Examinations Design and construction.".
- catalog subject "Universities.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Testing in the college classroom -- Planning the test -- Reliability and validity -- Multiple-choice items -- True-false, matching, and completion items -- Essay examinations -- Alternative assessment procedures -- Administration of the test -- Computer-assisted testing -- Item analysis -- Grading.".
- catalog title "Developing and using tests effectively : a guide for faculty / Lucy Cheser Jacobs, Clinton I. Chase.".
- catalog type "text".