Rethinking value-added models in education: critical perspectives on tests and assessment-based accountability

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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. Audrey Amrein-beardsley. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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Name in long format: Rethinking Value-added Models In Education: Critical Perspectives On Tests And Assessment-based Accountability Critical Perspectives On Tests And Assessment-based Accountability
ISBN-10: 0203409906
ISBN-13: 9780203409909
Book language: en
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Dimensions: xix, 251 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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