User-Centered Assessment Design
An Integrated Methodology for Diverse Populations
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Guilford Publications
Publishing:11th Mar '25
£74.99
This title is due to be published on 11th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
How can assessment instruments be designed or selected to best serve the needs of intended users, taking into account their interests, capacities, and limitations? Informed by a socioecological perspective, this timely, state-of-the-art reference and text presents an integrated, user-centered process model for developing assessments guided by user contexts. Madhabi Chatterji provides foundational principles and procedures for designing multi-item tests; behavior-based, product-based, and portfolio-based assessments; and self-report instruments. She demonstrates how to integrate qualitative and quantitative methods to devise tools that meet the quality criteria of usefulness and usability alongside validity and reliability. The book features case study discussions; worked-through examples with diverse, global populations; and sample instruments from a variety of disciplines (education, psychology, health care, and others). Chapter overviews and objectives are tied to within-chapter Recaps and Reflection Breaks to further understanding and class discussion.
"This text serves as a consolidated resource for technical and practical knowledge regarding assessment design. Excitingly, the author centers issues of score use and consequences in framing the relevance and implications of assessment use. The way Chatterji does a deep dive on each example and then summarizes the key steps will be very helpful to my students."--Robyn Thomas Pitts, PhD, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver
"Chatterji's process model integrates the 'why,' 'who,' 'what,' and 'how-to' of effective assessment This book provides practitioners with a conceptual framework and relevant procedures for conceptualizing and developing carefully targeted measures and establishing their technical adequacy."--Paul Yovanoff, PhD, Simmons School of Education and Human Development (Emeritus), Southern Methodist University
"This well-constructed text will be useful for graduate-level courses in testing and measurement. It outlines basic concepts of test construction quite well and presents many figures and applications to make it easier to understand the material."--Matthew K. Burns, PhD, Rose and Irving Fein Endowed Professor of Special Education, University of Florida; Assistant Director, University of Florida Literacy Institute
"This book is a 'must have' for those of us in the assessment world. It covers all the basic information that is needed for high-quality assessment development, administration, and analysis. I recommend this book for district- and state-level education decision makers and anyone who provides professional development to program specialists and classroom teachers."--Beverly Fitzpatrick, PhD, School of Pharmacy and School of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada-
"This text serves as a consolidated resource for technical and practical knowledge regarding assessment design. Excitingly, the author centers issues of score use and consequences in framing the relevance and implications of assessment use. The way Chatterji does a deep dive on each example and then summarizes the key steps will be very helpful to my students."--Robyn Thomas Pitts, PhD, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver
"Chatterji's process model integrates the 'why,' 'who,' 'what,' and 'how-to' of effective assessment. This book provides practitioners with a conceptual framework and relevant procedures for conceptualizing and developing carefully targeted measures and establishing their technical adequacy."--Paul Yovanoff, PhD, Simmons School of Education and Human Development (Emeritus), Southern Methodist University
"This well-constructed text will be useful for graduate-level courses in testing and measurement. It outlines basic concepts of test construction quite well and presents many figures and applications to make it easier to understand the material."--Matthew K. Burns, PhD, Rose and Irving Fein Endowed Professor of Special Education, University of Florida; Assistant Director, University of Florida Literacy Institute
"This book is a 'must have' for those of us in the assessment world. It covers all the basic information that is needed for high-quality assessment development, administration, and analysis. I recommend this book for district- and state-level education decision makers and anyone who provides professional development to program specialists and classroom teachers."--Beverly Fitzpatrick, PhD, School of Pharmacy and School of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada-
ISBN: 9781462555482
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446 pages