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Assessment And Evaluation Of Developmental Learning »

Authors: Robert M. Hashway
ISBN-13: 9780275943080, ISBN-10: 0275943089
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Robert M. Hashway

ROBERT M. HASHWAY is Professor of Education at Grambling State University.

Book Synopsis

Arguments for a developmental approach to learning through the life span concordant with the current themes of developmental education.

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Beginning with a historical overview of assessment, Hashway (education, Grambling State U.) argues for the need for a developmental approach to contemporary education, one which teaches the ability to think as an individual, as opposed to teaching specific facts or skills that may be obsolete in no time. To determine how to measure this different kind of learning, he reviews three distinct methodologies of assessment: norm referenced assessments, item response theory, and criterion referenced assessments. As an outgrowth of his work here, the author has two companion volumes in preparation, anticipated in 1998: and Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Tables and Figures
	Preface and Acknowledgements
1	The History of Assessment	1
2	Constructing a Preliminary Item Bank	29
3	A Primer on Latent Trait Theory	49
4	Norm Referenced Assessments	63
5	Item Response Theory	87
6	Criterion Referenced Assessments	111
7	Comparisons Using Assessment Results	149
8	Measurement in Transition	183
9	Principles of Developmental Learning	201
10	Fundamentals of Developmental Learning Theory	215
App. A	An Instrument for Studying Developmental Dynamics	245
	Bibliography	251
	Index	327