Standard setting in education : the Nordic countries in an international perspective /: the Nordic countries in an international perspective. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Nordic countries in an international perspective
• Further Information: Note: Sigrid Blömeke, Jan-Eric Gustafsson, editors.
• Editors: Blömeke, Sigrid; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric, 1949-
• Contents: 1. Introduction -- PART 1: Fundamental Questions in Standard Setting -- 2. Using Empirical Results to Validate Performance Standards -- 3. Weaknesses of the Traditional View of Standard Setting and a Suggested Alternative -- 4. Standard Setting: Bridging the World of Research and Policy Making -- 5. Standard Setting in PISA and TIMSS and How these Procedures Can Be Used Nationally -- 6. In the Science and Practice of Standard Setting: Where is the Science??- PART 2: Standard Setting in the Nordic Countries -- 7. Standard Setting in Denmark: Challenges through Computer-based Adaptive Testing -- 8. Experiences with Standards and Criteria in Sweden -- 9. Validating Standard Setting in Sweden: Comparing Judgmental and Statistical Linking -- 10. National Tests in Norway: An Undeclared Standard in Education?- 11. Setting Standards for Multistage Tests of Norwegian for Adult Immigrants -- 12. Standard Setting in a Formative Assessment of Digital Responsibility Among Norwegian Eighth Graders -- 13. Assessment for Learning and Standards: A Norwegian Strategy and Its Challenges -- 14. How Do Finns Know? Educational Monitoring without Inspection and Comprehensive Testing -- PART 3: New Methodological Approaches to Standard Setting -- 15. The Data-Driven Direct Consensus (3DC) Procedure: A New Approach to Standard Setting -- 16. Using Professional Judgement: A New Approach to Equating Exam Standards -- 17. Closing the Loop: Providing Test Developers with Performance Level Descriptors So Standard Setters Can Do Their Job -- 18. Setting Standards to a Scientific Literacy Test for Adults.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 379.1/58/0948; Education; Education -- Standards -- Scandinavia; EDUCATION -- Administration -- General; Education -- Standards; Education; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Educational Policy and Politics; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General; Social Science -- Statistics; Educational strategies & policy; Social research & statistics; Educational tests and measuremen; Statistics; Education -- Evaluation; Examinations & assessment; Scandinavia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319508566; 3319508563
• Related ISBNs: 9783319508559; 3319508555
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