Test scores and what they mean

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = xi
• 1 INTERPRETING TEST SCORES = 1
• Testing Today = 2
• No More Stalling = 4
• A Pretest = 5
• 2 SOME NEW DEVELOPMENTS = 9
• Criterion-Referenced Measurement = 9
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission = 11
• Competency and Accountability = 12
• Test Disclosure Laws = 13
• Performance Testing = 14
• Adaptive Testing = 14
• Computers and Testing = 15
• Latent Trait Scaling = 17
• 3 THE LANGUAGE OF TESTING = 18
• Maximum-Performance Versus Typical-Performance Tests = 18
• How to Tell = 27
• This Book = 27
• Basic Attributes of the Test = 27
• Validity = 28
• Reliability = 31
• Usability = 37
• 4 A FEW STATISTICS = 39
• Introduction = 39
• Descriptive Statistics = 44
• The Normal Probability Curve = 52
• Inferential Statistics = 53
• Expectancy Tables = 58
• An Omission and an Explanation = 59
• 5 THE TEST MANUAL = 61
• The Test Catalog = 61
• Test publishers = 62
• Manuals = 63
• 6 DERIVED SCORES = 78
• A Classification Scheme = 78
• The Scores = 85
• Type Ⅰ : Comparison with an "Absolute Standard," or Content Difficulty = 85
• Type Ⅱ : Inter-Individual Comparisons = 87
• Type Ⅲ : Intra-Individual Comparison = 108
• Type Ⅳ : Assorted Arbitrary Bases = 110
• A Final Word = 112
• 7 TEST PROFILES = 114
• 8 COMMON SENSE = 123
• 9 WHAT CAN WE SAY? = 127
• Who is Entitled to Test Information? = 128
• Communicating the Results = 130
• In Summary = 137
• 10 TESTING AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY = 138
• 11 CONCLUDING REMARKS = 147
• Conversion Tables = 152
• Appendix = 158
• Bibliography = 166
• Index = 169