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Development, Assessment and Testing Subject Guide

Databases

  • Academic Search Elite
    Multi-disciplinary database offers full-text, dating from 1985 to present, for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including more than 1,250 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study- EBSCOhost
  • Education Full Text
    Full-text articles from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Includes administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and mores- WilsonWeb
  • ERIC
    Contains digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals- EBSCOhost
  • PsycINFO
    Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Includes international material selected from periodicals in over 30 languages- EBSCOhost
  • PsycARTICLES
    Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1988 to the present. Includes in this database are indexed in PsycINFO- EBSCOhost

Books

  • Assessment in Early Childhood Settings : Learning Stories / by Margaret Carr
    (LB1139.23 .C38)
    Shows that an early childhood setting is a learning place in which children develop learning dispositions. Presents how we can assess and track children's learning in the early years in a way that includes learning dispositions and avoids the pitfalls of over-formal methods- Publisher
  • The Assessment Debate: A Reference Handbook / by Valerie J. Janesick
    (LB3051 .S66)
    Provides a source of feedback to the learners, enabling them to demonstrate what they have absorbed. Explains the difference between authentic assessment and performance assessment and describes how typical tests differ from the techniques of assessment- Publisher
  • Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment: Ability, Achievement, and Behavior in Children / by Jac J. W. Andrews , Donald H. Saklofske, Henry L. Janzen
    (LB3051 .H31985)
    Practical guide for educational and psychological professionals using norm-referenced tests in the ability, achievement, and behavioral assessment of children. Provides critical information on the nature and scope of commonly used tests, their reliability and validity, administration, scoring and interpretation, and on how the tests may differ and complement each other in their utility with specific populations- Publisher  Look inside!
  • Additional Books (Educational Assessment)

Journals

  • Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
    Provides current information about significant developments within the field of assessment & evaluation in higher education- EBSCOhost
  • Educational Assessment
    Publishes research and scholarship on the assessment of individuals, groups and programs in educational settings. Reports on studies of conventional testing practices, alternative approaches, scholarship on classroom practice, and national assessment- EBSCOhost
  • Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis
    Publishes scholarly articles concerned with important issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of education policy- Sage
  • International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
    Enhances the theory & practice of qualitative research in education by reporting experience of a variety of techniques- EBSCOhost
  • Journal of Educational Psychology
    Publishes original, primary psychological research pertaining to education across all ages and educational levels- EBSCOhost
  • Measurement & Evaluation in Counseling & Development
    Articles dealing with the theoretical and other problems of the measurement specialist or directed at the administrator, counselor or personnel worker in schools and colleges, public and private agencies, business, industry or government- EBSCOhost

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