Evaluation Models - Viewpoints on Educational and Human Services Evaluation

(Evaluation in Education and Human Services Volume 49)
D.L. Stufflebeam, George F. Madaus, T. Kellaghan

Springer | 2000 | 520 páginas | pdf | 9,6 Mb

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Descrição: Evaluation Models is an up-to-date revision of the classic text first published in 1983. Organized in three sections, the first includes a historical perspective on the growth of evaluation theory and practice and two comparative analyses of the various alternative perspectives on evaluation. The second section includes articles representing the major schools of thought about evaluation written by the leaders who have developed these schools and models. The final section describes and discusses the Standards for Program Evaluation and the reformation of program evaluation.

Assessment For Learning: Putting It Into Practice

Paul Black, Chris Harrison, Clare Lee, Bethan Marshall, Dylan Wiliam

Open University Press | 2003 | 172 páginas | PDF | 566 kb

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This is a surprising and welcome book a heartening read that shows the power of assessment for learning and the potential for academics and teachers jointly to put into practice ideas that can improve classroom learning and teaching.
The starting point of this book was the realisation that research studies worldwide provide hard evidence that development of formative assessment raises students’ test scores. The significant improvement in the achievements of the students in this project confirms this research, while providing teachers, teacher trainers, school heads and others leaders with ideas and advice for improving formative assessment in the classroom.

Assessment for Learning is based on a two-year project involving thirty-six teachers in schools in Medway and Oxfordshire. After a brief review of the research background and of the project itself, successive chapters describe the specific practices which teachers found fruitful and the underlying ideas about learning that these developments illustrate. Later chapters discuss the problems that teachers encountered when implementing the new practices in their classroom and give guidance for school management and LEAs about promoting and supporting the changes.

This book offers valuable insights into assessment for learning as teachers describe in their own words how they turned the ideas into practical action in their schools.

Assessment and Learning

John R Gardner

Sage Publications Ltd | 2005 | 204 páginas |  pdf | 32,4 Mb

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The only book of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of assessment used to support learning, Assessment and Learning makes this area accessible and understandable for a wise range of users. This unique text is a major source of practice-based theory on assessment for learning, a formative assessment to support individual development and motivate learners. Key areas covered in the book include the practice of learning for assessment in the classroom, developing motivation for learning, professional learning and assessment for learning, and assessment and theories of learning.

Testing Times: the uses and abuses of assessment

Gordon Stobart

Routledge | 2008 | 218 páginas |  pdf | 1,19 Mb

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Assessment dominates our lives but its good intentions often produce negative consequences. An example that is central to this book is how current forms of assessment encourage shallow ‘for-the-test’ learning. It is true to say that as the volume of assessment increases, confidence in what it represents is diminishing. This book seeks to reclaim assessment as a constructive activity which can encourage deeper learning. To do this the purpose, and fitness-for–purpose, of assessments have to be clear.Gordon Stobart critically examines five issues that currently have high-profile status:
intelligence testing
learning skills
accountability
the ‘diploma disease’
formative assessment
Stobart explains that these form the basis for the argument that we must generate assessments which, in turn, encourage deep and lifelong learning.
This book raises controversial questions about current uses of assessment and provides a framework for understanding them. It will be of great interest to teaching professionals involved in further study, and to academics and researchers in the field.

Envisioning Information

Edward R. Tufte

Graphics Press | 1990 | 126 páginas | PDF | 10,56 Mb

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Descrição:A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Graphics Press | 2001 | 197 páginas |  pdf | 13 Mb

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The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio. Time-series, relational graphics, data maps, multivariate designs. Detection of graphical deception: design variation vs. data variation. Sources of deception. Aesthetics and data graphical displays.

This is the second edition of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Recently published, this new edition provides excellent color reproductions of the many graphics of William Playfair, adds color to other images, and includes all the changes and corrections accumulated during 17 printings of the first edition.

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Edward R. Tufte

Graphics Press | 1997 | 156 páginas | pdf | 19,27 Mb

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With Visual Explanations, Edward R. Tufte adds a third volume to his indispensable series on information display. The first, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,which focuses on charts and graphs that display numerical information, virtually defined the field. The second, Envisioning Information, explores similar territory but with an emphasis on maps and cartography. Visual Explanations centers on dynamic data--information that changes over time. (Tufte has described the three books as being about, respectively, "pictures of numbers, pictures of nouns, and pictures of verbs.")Like its predecessors, Visual Explanations is both intellectually stimulating and beautiful to behold. Tufte, a self-publisher, takes extraordinary pains with design and production. The book ranges through a variety of topics, including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger (which could have been prevented, Tufte argues, by better information display on the part of the rocket's engineers), magic tricks, a cholera epidemic in 19th-century London, and the principle of using "the smallest effective difference" to display distinctions in data. Throughout, Tufte presents ideas with crystalline clarity and illustrates them in exquisitely rendered samples.

Uncertain Science ... Uncertain World

Henry N. Pollack

Cambridge University Press | 2003 | 256 páginas |  pdf | 1 Mb

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Scientific uncertainty puzzles many people. The confusion arises when scientists have more than one answer, and disagree among themselves. By acquainting readers with the ways that uncertainty arises in science, how scientists accommodate and make use of uncertainty, and how they reach conclusions in the face of uncertainty, this book enables them to confidently evaluate uncertainty from their own perspectives, in terms of their experiences.

Misused Statistics

(Popular Statistics)
Herbert Spirer, Louise Spirer, Abram J. Jaffe

CRC | 1998 | 280 páginas |  PDF | 2 Mb

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Descrição: This revised and updated edition of a standard in the field alerts readers to the problems inherent in statistical practice—illustrating the types of misused statistics with well-documented, real-world examples, nearly half new to this edition, drawn from a wide range of areas, including the media, public policy, polls and surveys, political elections and debates, advertising, science and health care, and business and economics.Shows how to detect and rectify the inaccurate or deceptive usage of quantitative data in reports, articles, and statements, even in your own work!Extensively rewritten to account for developments in the past decade, this Second Edition makes sophisticated statistical issues accessible to novices, while retaining technical features of pertinence to professionals shows how to identify, understand, and deal with statistical misuses demonstrates how to evaluate examples in a step-by-step fashion offers end-of-chapter summaries facilitating at-a-glance information and more!Together with bibliographic citations, tables, and drawings, Misused Statistics, Second Edition furnishes a stimulating, integrated view of the subject for statisticians; biomathematicians and medical personnel; political scientists; journalists; lawyers; professionals and graduate-level students in statistics, business administration, economics, demography, sociology, anthropology, general sciences, operations management, and urban and public affairs; continuing-education courses in statistics; as well as individuals with a general interest in the subject.

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter L. Bernstein

Wiley | 1998 | 400 páginas | djvu | 4 Mb

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Descrição: With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking.

Randomness

Deborah J. Bennett
Harvard University Press | 1999 | 256 páginas |  PDF | 610 kb

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Descrição: From the ancients' first readings of the innards of birds to your neighbor's last bout with the state lottery, humankind has put itself into the hands of chance. In our modern world, life itself may be at stake when probability comes into play-in the chance of a false negative in a medical test, in the reliability of DNA findings as legal evidence, or in the likelihood of passing on a deadly congenital disease-yet even today, few people understand the odds. This book is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking, Randomness is also a skillful account of what makes the science of probability so daunting in our own time.

Contents
1 Chance Encounters 1
2 Why Resort to Chance? 11
3 When the Gods Played Dice 28
4 Figuring the Odds 46
5 Mind Games for Gamblers 64
6 Chance or Necessity? 83
7 Order in Apparent Chaos 109
8 Wanted: Random Numbers 132
9 Randomness as Uncertainty 152
10 Paradoxes in Probability 174
Notes 191
Bibliography 209
Index 233