Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us

by Daniel Koretz

Book Overview

How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can't tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be--well, complicated.

Inspired by a popular Harvard course for students without...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035216
• ISBN13: 9780674035218
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"