For example, a woman consulting the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment tool online (https://bcrisktool.cancer.gov/) is likely to be relieved to discover that her risk of cancer is below average because it is less than that of the population rate of about 13%, but how should she interpret ...
We discuss the implications of our study for creating vertical scales in the context of national assessment systems.RoutledgeAssessment in Education: Principles, Policy And Practice
商品简介 This revised fifth edition outlines the requirements of the numeracy skills test and helps trainee teachers clarify essential subject knowledge and prepare for the test with practice questions. 查看Google书籍信息 购前须知 图书的预售 若书籍的出版日期为将来的时间,即该商品处于预售状态。我们...
This investigation classifies mathematics items in Australia's inaugural national numeracy tests and considers the effect such standardised testing will have on practice. It is argued that the design of mathematics items is more likely to be a reliable indication of student performance if graphical, ...
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The authors found that 53% of the year one students undertaking summative tests as part of their normal program were unsuccessful on their first attempt. They also performed an analysis using the Rasch model, a probabilistic model based on an item response theory, to compare the abilities of ...
Kolor, K., Duquette, D., Zlot, A., Foland, J., Anderson, B., Giles, R., Wrathall, J. & Khoury, M. J. (2012). Public awareness and use of direct-to-consumer personal genomic tests from four state population-based surveys, and implications for clinical and public health practice....
In a longitudinal study by Geary and colleagues, tests of understanding the numerosity of sets and of estimating the position of a number on a number line, are two important predictors of “Low Achieving” in mathematics, affecting some 50% of the sample, and “Mathematics Learning Disability”...
From May 2001 all teachers qualifying in England must be successful in computer-based skills tests in numeracy and literacy. The first test to be developed was the QTS Skills Test in Numeracy, which was a paper and pencil test taken on 1 June 2000 by approximately 22,000 trainee teachers. ...
Quinnell, L. (2011). Cracking the code of NAPLAN numeracy tests in primary years: An exploration of the language used to assess numeracy: Focusing on the literacy requirements of mathematics is good teaching practice. Australia Literacy Educators Association, 16, (1)....