Exam Preparation

As the best-selling professional resource in its
field, this text offers basic assessment information and a handbook of
honest, even-handed reviews of the most common K–12 standardized tests.

Airasian presents complex concepts clearly so that pre-service teachers can understand them, and grounds these concepts in best practice through practical examples. The text focuses not only on the assessment needs of testing, grading, interpreting standardized tests, and performance assessments but also on assessment concerns in organizing a classroom at the start of school, planning and implementing instruction, and strategies of teacher self reflection.

The purpose of this text is to integrate the
areas of testing and decision making, focusing on improvement of
instruction and student learning.

Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' ability to capture teachers' knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate.

This textbook provides an introduction to statistics. It covers describing, exploring, and comparing data, probability, probability distributions, normal probability distributions, estimates and sample sizes, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression and statistical process control. Assuming only a knowledge of algebra, it builds a strong foundation of conceptual and procedural understanding of statistics.