Fundamentals Of Educational Measurement With The Elements Of Statistical Method

Excerpt from Fundamentals of Educational Measurement With the Elements of Statistical Method This book is an attempt to bridge, in part, a gap be tween theory and practice in educational tests and measure ments. The leaders in the movement for a quantitative study of educational problems have advanced so far into the theory and more complex practical phases of the work that a very large percentage of the teachers and students have considerable difficulty in following them. Most of the books on the subject have either been more or less technical, pre-supposing considerable training on the part of the readers in the field, or they have been largely manuals of directions for giving the tests and scoring the papers, with little reference to the theory and to the prob lems which have confronted those attempting to measure educational processes and products. This book deals with the processes and problems in a somewhat evolutionary way so that the teachers and students may see the order in which the problems have arisen and the attempted solu tions of them. A mere manual of directions for giving tests and scoring the papers will not develop a professional Spirit among teachers in this field. They must under stand the fundamental principles, or the work becomes purely mechanical and non-professional. It has been the aim of the author to present the fundamental principles in non-technical language, as far as it is possible to do so, and to confine the statistical treatment of the data almost entirely to simple operations in arithmetic. The author has drawn freely on the works of Drs. Edward L. Thorndike, Leonard P. Ayres, Harold 0. Bug. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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