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Paperback Tips for Improving Testing and Grading Book

ISBN: 080394974X

ISBN13: 9780803949744

Tips for Improving Testing and Grading (Survival Skills for Scholars)

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"The Ory/Ryan volume offers practical advice for developing, using, and grading classroom examinations. The book encourages faculty to understand the potential benefits they can reap from appropriate and careful testing and grading practices, and the role of testing in promoting quality teaching. . . . it is very helpful and well structured for those faculty who rely on traditional forms of assessment. This book will help such faculty improve their test development and assessment skills as well as encouraging them to reflect on their own testing and grading practices."

--Patricia H. Wheeler in Evaluation Practice

"This book] provides a thorough discussion of general testing and grading issues. . . . The topics one would expect to be covered are all addressed in a thorough and step-by-step manner. I particularly like the activities accompanying each chapter. They are brief, doable, and inviting. . . . It would be particularly helpful for new faculty, but experienced faculty might also benefit from the discussion of how to evaluate past exams and the pros and cons of various grading policies."

--Shirley Ronkowski, Office of Instructional Consultation,

University of California, Santa Barbara

Do you enjoy teaching students about your field, but loathe the testing and grading process? Do you find yourself using the same kinds of tests that you had as a student? Aimed at helping faculty develop more effective assessment strategies, Ory and Ryan′s book provides practical suggestions for developing, using, and grading classroom exams. Through the use of detailed examples, check lists, exercises, and lucid explanations, this book will help you determine what content to include on an exam, assess difficulty level of items, write different kinds of test items (multiple-choice, matching, true-false, essay, and short answer), prepare a professional-looking exam, deal with cheating, score different test items, determine if various content areas were adequately taught, help students review for an exam, select a grading method, and develop your own grading strategy. If you want your exams and grades to be an accurate reflection of the material your students have mastered, then this book is the resource for you.

Customer Reviews

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A short, practical guide to constructing fair tests.

When I told the saleswoman at the Teachers College Bookstore what I was looking for - a practical guide to constructing multiple choice tests - she said something to the effect of "Practical? You won't find anything like that here." But then she dug around in a corner and came up with one copy of this 100-page paperback. This book read so easily, and addressed the key issues so directly, that I finished it off on two subway rides and immediately implemented the recommendations on my company's multiple-choice tests that accompany self-study guides. Subjects include "clueing" - smart test-takers who answer questions by eliminating wrong answers - and the differences between absolute and normative tests. I'm not a professional educator. If I were, I would probably find more faults with this book. But it served my purpose very well. Multiple choice tests may have problems, but unfortunately, I have to use them, and so I need to know how to construct them. This book told me how, in a way that was painless or even fun. One criticism: I would like to have seen a discussion of how long a multiple choice test needs to be in order to be confident with a given level of certainty - say, 95% - that the correct answers are not due to chance alone. (If you want to answer this question, I recommend another inexpensive paperback - The Harper Collins Dictionary of Statistics - specifically the 3-page entry on the binomial distribution.)
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