What Every Parent Must Know About Standardized Tests
How to Understand the Tests and Help Your Kids Score High
Joseph Harris(Author)
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US (Publisher)
Published on 17. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-07-137758-4 (ISBN)
Description
Everyone from school principals to teachers to parents nationwide is concerned about standardized testing. Standardized testing has become the bete noir of parents, students, faculty and administrators in relation to education today. Every year, millions of children must take state-mandated, standardized tests, the results of which can profoundly affect their futures, the standing of their schools and districts, even the career prospects of their teachers, and the administrators who run school systems. Parents are often at a loss in the face of these tests and how to help their children with them. This book will go a long way toward assuaging these apprehensions. What Every Parent Must Know About Standardized Tests will explain to parents clearly, simply, and in detail just what these tests are all about - what the tests are, what scores mean, how to interpret results, and how to compare different standardized tests.
Written by an experienced psychologist who has researched the development of psychological tests and who teaches standardized testing issues at the university level, the book will give balanced, impartial, informed answers to parents' concerns in this controversial area.
Written by an experienced psychologist who has researched the development of psychological tests and who teaches standardized testing issues at the university level, the book will give balanced, impartial, informed answers to parents' concerns in this controversial area.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line art, graphs, tables, glossary, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 142 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-07-137758-4 (9780071377584)
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What Every Parent Needs to Know about Standardized Tests: How to Understand the Tests and Help Your Kids Score High!
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Person
Joseph Harris, Jr. earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of South Carolina. He is a licensed and certified school psychologist, a member of the American Psychological Association and of the National Disaster Response Network. He has worked as a psychological researcher, school-based psychologist and director of special education, and has advised on test construction. He is currently adjunet professor at Converse College and owns Foothills Behavioral Consulting in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He is the author of three of the books in the Get Ready for Standardized Tests series. HOMETOWN: Moore, SC
Content
Introduction PART I. USING STANDARDIZED TESTS Chapter 1. Help your child succeed Chapter 2. Scoping out the test questions Chapter 3. Making sense of your child's scores Chapter 4. After the dust settles: What you can do Chapter 5. So what if you're a homeschooler... Chapter 6. If your child has special needs... PART II. TYPES OF STANDARDIZED TESTS Chapter 7. From California to Iowa - What do we do with the results? Chapter 8. California Achievement Tests (CTB/McGraw-Hill) Chapter 9. Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (Riverside) Chapter 10. Metropolitan Achievement Test (Harcourt-Brace & Company Chapter 11. Stanford Achievement Test (Psychological Corporation) Chapter 12. TerraNova (Formerly Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills) (CTB/McGraw-Hill) Chapter 13. Standardized group aptitude test Glossary Appendix Index