Rethinking value-added models in education : critical perspectives on tests and assessment-based accountability / Audrey Amrein-Beardsley.
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TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2014.Edition: First published 2014Description: xix, 251 pages : 26 cmISBN: - 9780415820110 (hardback)
- 9780415820127 (pbk.)
- 379.158 AME/R
Contents:
Socially engineering the road to utopia -- Value-added models (VAMs) and the human factor -- A VAMoramic view of the nation -- Highly questionable yet often unquestioned assumptions -- Assumptions used as rationales and justifications -- Test-based, statistical, and methodological assumptions -- Nontraditional concerns about traditional methodological notions -- Reliability and validity -- Bias and the random assignment of students into classrooms -- Alternatives, solutions, and conclusions.
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EduPsy Library, Sikkim University EduPsy Library | 379.158 AME/R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 05/03/2022 | P42593 |
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Socially engineering the road to utopia -- Value-added models (VAMs) and the human factor -- A VAMoramic view of the nation -- Highly questionable yet often unquestioned assumptions -- Assumptions used as rationales and justifications -- Test-based, statistical, and methodological assumptions -- Nontraditional concerns about traditional methodological notions -- Reliability and validity -- Bias and the random assignment of students into classrooms -- Alternatives, solutions, and conclusions.
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