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Devising tests that evaluate a nation's educational standing and
implement efficacious educational reforms requires a careful
balance among the contributions of technology, psychometrics, test
design, and the learning sciences. Unlike other forms of adaptive
testing, multistage testing (MST) is highly suitable for testing
educational achievement because it can be adapted to educational
surveys and student testing. Computerized Multistage Testing:
Theory and Applications covers the methodologies, underlying
technology, and implementation aspects of this type of test design.
The book discusses current scientific perspectives and practical
considerations for each step involved in setting up an MST program.
It covers the history of MST, test design and implementation for
various purposes, item pool development and maintenance, IRT-based
and classical test theory-based methodologies for test assembly,
routing and scoring, equating, test security, and existing
software. It also explores current research, existing operational
programs, and innovative future assessments using MST. Intended for
psychologists, social scientists, and educational measurement
scientists, this volume provides the first unified source of
information on the design, psychometrics, implementation, and
operational use of MST. It shows how to apply theoretical
statistical tools to testing in novel and useful ways. It also
explains how to explicitly tie the assumptions made by each model
to observable (or at least inferable) data conditions. Winner of
the 2016 AERA Award for Significant Contribution to Educational
Measurement and Research Methodology The 2016 American Education
Research Association (AERA) Div. D award committee for Significant
Contributions to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology
has recognized unanimously this collaborative work advancing the
theory and applications of computerized MST. This annual award
recognizes published research judged to represent a significant
conceptual advancement in the theory and practice of educational
measurement and/or educational research methodology. The 2016 award
was made under the heading: Measurement, Psychometrics, and
Assessment. This collective work, published in 2014 as an edited
volume titled Computerized Multistage Testing: Theory and
Applications, was cited by the committee both for the originality
of the conceptual foundations presented in support of multistage
testing and for arguing persuasively for its potential impact on
the practice of educational measurement.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Devising tests that evaluate a nation's educational standing and
implement efficacious educational reforms requires a careful
balance among the contributions of technology, psychometrics, test
design, and the learning sciences. Unlike other forms of adaptive
testing, multistage testing (MST) is highly suitable for testing
educational achievement because it can be adapted to educational
surveys and student testing. Computerized Multistage Testing:
Theory and Applications covers the methodologies, underlying
technology, and implementation aspects of this type of test design.
The book discusses current scientific perspectives and practical
considerations for each step involved in setting up an MST program.
It covers the history of MST, test design and implementation for
various purposes, item pool development and maintenance, IRT-based
and classical test theory-based methodologies for test assembly,
routing and scoring, equating, test security, and existing
software. It also explores current research, existing operational
programs, and innovative future assessments using MST. Intended for
psychologists, social scientists, and educational measurement
scientists, this volume provides the first unified source of
information on the design, psychometrics, implementation, and
operational use of MST. It shows how to apply theoretical
statistical tools to testing in novel and useful ways. It also
explains how to explicitly tie the assumptions made by each model
to observable (or at least inferable) data conditions. Winner of
the 2016 AERA Award for Significant Contribution to Educational
Measurement and Research Methodology The 2016 American Education
Research Association (AERA) Div. D award committee for Significant
Contributions to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology
has recognized unanimously this collaborative work advancing the
theory and applications of computerized MST. This annual award
recognizes published research judged to represent a significant
conceptual advancement in the theory and practice of educational
measurement and/or educational research methodology. The 2016 award
was made under the heading: Measurement, Psychometrics, and
Assessment. This collective work, published in 2014 as an edited
volume titled Computerized Multistage Testing: Theory and
Applications, was cited by the committee both for the originality
of the conceptual foundations presented in support of multistage
testing and for arguing persuasively for its potential impact on
the practice of educational measurement.
Origins of Globalization draws widely on ancient sources and
modern economic theory to detail the concept of "known world"
globalization, arguing that a mixed economy--similar in many
respects to our own--existed in a variety of forms throughout the
ancient world. By analyzing the business practices of the ancient
world--phenomena such as resource and market seeking behavior,
international trade from China, India and Rome, to Africa and even
northern and western parts of Europe, Small and Medium Size
Enterprises (SMEs) operating internationally and outsourcing
production, multicultural workforces, tariff reduced zones,
interregional tax issues, and the management of currency risks--the
authors provide readers with a unique historical interpretation of
the contemporary globalizing economy and a durable theoretical
framework for future historical economic analyses.
Origins of Globalization draws widely on ancient sources and
modern economic theory to detail the concept of a oeknown worlda
globalization, arguing that a mixed economy--similar in many
respects to our own--existed in a variety of forms throughout the
ancient world. By analyzing the business practices of the ancient
world--phenomena such as resource and market seeking behavior,
international trade from China, India and Rome, to Africa and even
northern and western parts of Europe, Small and Medium Size
Enterprises (SMEs) operating internationally and outsourcing
production, multicultural workforces, tariff reduced zones,
interregional tax issues, and the management of currency risks--the
authors provide readers with a unique historical interpretation of
the contemporary globalizing economy and a durable theoretical
framework for future historical economic analyses.
This interdisciplinary study examines four major British and
American novels in view of key concepts from the mainstream
tradition of neoclassical economics. Studies of the novel widely
address its connections to capitalism, yet literary critics and
theorists rarely make reference to neoclassical perspectives, which
have held a key position in the formal analysis of the marketplace
for over a century.
Lewis argues that this overlooked area of economic thought, with
its emphasis on subjective value, individual agency, and utility
maximization, points to a previously unrecognized and important
"coincidence of wants" between economic and novelistic discourse.
In each of the four readings, Lewis uses a single economic problem
from neoclassical theory as a model for interpreting novelistic
form and content as economic configurations. Topics include
narrative deferral, detour, and return as a performance of capital
formation and economic development in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson
Crusoe;" the emergence of the creative, risk-taking entrepreneur in
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein;" the representation of money in the
romantic realization of trade in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick;" and
a consumer utility theory of naturalist desire and indifference in
Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie."
Underscoring how neoclassical theory variously elaborates on and
departs from other economic approaches and periods, the author also
addresses the limitations of, and the possibilities of profitable
exchange with, other critical frameworks for understanding literal
and symbolic economies in narrative fiction more broadly.
Statistical methodology is often conceived by social scientists in
a technical manner; they use it for support rather than for
illumination. This two-volume set attempts to provide some partial
remedy to the problems that have led to this state of affairs. Both
traditional issues, such as analysis of variance and the general
linear model, as well as more novel methods like exploratory data
analysis, are included. The editors aim to provide an updated
survey on different aspects of empirical research and data
analysis, facilitate the understanding of the internal logic
underlying different methods, and provide novel and broader
perspectives beyond what is usually covered in traditional
curricula.
Statistical methodology is often conceived by social scientists in
a technical manner; they use it for support rather than for
illumination. This two-volume set attempts to provide some partial
remedy to the problems that have led to this state of affairs. Both
traditional issues, such as analysis of variance and the general
linear model, as well as more novel methods like exploratory data
analysis, are included. The editors aim to provide an updated
survey on different aspects of empirical research and data
analysis, facilitate the understanding of the internal logic
underlying different methods, and provide novel and broader
perspectives beyond what is usually covered in traditional
curricula.
This is a memorial for Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, a pioneering
political scientist, international relations specialist and peace
scholar of the 20th century. Born in Prague, he was a professor at
MIT, Yale and Harvard and spent a decade at the Social Science
Center Berlin (WZB). He was a global leader in the theory and
scientific analysis of international relations and comparative
politics who published on nationalism, social communication,
European integration, war and peace, arms control, social
cybernetics, general systems analysis, and global modelling. He
pioneered the development and analysis of large-scale political and
social data across nations and over time and proposed a widespread
access to these data and their scientific evaluation. This book
offers biographical data on Karl W. Deutsch, reproduces chapters
from his PhD thesis and his book Nerves of Government. Colleagues
from the USA (A.S. Markovits, H. Alker, R.L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.,P. J.
Katzenstein, T.R. Cusack, C.L. Taylor), Germany (D. Senghaas, R.
Wildenmann, R. Mackensen, K. v. Beyme) and the Czech Republic (M.
Hroch) offer Collegial Critiques and Memorials. It provides a
comprehensive bibliography of his publications and memorials for a
great scholar, a superb academic teacher and world citizen. * Karl
Wolfgang Deutsch was a major global pioneer in Political Science,
internationalrelations and peace research in the 20th century. *
His most creative contributions were the concept of social
mobilization, the use of cyberneticsto study human relationships,
the introduction of politics in world modeling, and the role of
communication in governance.* He was president of the American
Political Science Association (1969-70) and of theInternational
Political Science Association (1976-79) and was a Director of the
SocialScience Research Center Berlin (1977-87). * Academics,
including graduate students, exploring nationalism, political
integration,social communications, cybernetics, and global modeling
will find this volume instructive.
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