This Is a Test
A Handbook for Writing Good Tests
Published on 18. December 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-62521-514-7 (ISBN)
Description
When you're writing a test, you really don't want to make any mistakes. And yet, teachers, educations text writers, and even those who specialize in assessment make them all the time. In This is a Test, testing professional, Jan Gleiter tells you all about the most common problems test writers face. More important, she tells you how to avoid them and how to write a test that actually assesses what you want it to.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
154 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62521-514-7 (9781625215147)
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Jan Gleiter has spent more than three decades as a writer and editor in the field of educational publishing, specializing for most of that time in assessment, although she also writes in the areas of literature and English language arts. As the Project Director of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests and the Cognitive Abilities Tests, she mastered the art of test construction and learned the importance of validity in assessment. Jan also authored a successful middle-school vocabulary program, Words to Go, for grades 6, 7, and 8. She has written a series of biographies for the juvenile market and two mystery novels, one of which won the Malice Domestic award for "best first traditional mystery." Jan lives in Chicago. After many years of working for several of the biggest and best-known corporations in educational publishing, she is currently self-employed as an educational writer.