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Measuring Up - What Educational Testing Really Tells Us - Bog af Daniel Koretz - Paperback

Measuring Up demystifies educational testing-from MCAS to SAT to WAIS. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education.

DKK 222.95

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Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing - Bog af Lorraine M. McDonnell - Hardback

Exploring the political struggles inspired by mass educational tests, McDonnell analyzes the design and implementation of statewide testing in California, Kentucky, and North Carolina in the 1990s. McDonnell draws lessons from these stories for the federal No Child Left Behind act, with its sweeping directives for high-stakes testing.

DKK 712.95

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Testing Prayer - Science and Healing - Bog af Candy Gunther Brown - Hardback

Drawing on medical records, surveys of prayer recipients, prospective clinical trials, and multiyear follow-up observations and interviews, Brown shows that the widespread perception of prayer's healing power has demonstrable social effects which can in some cases produce improvements in health that can be scientifically verified.

DKK 381.95

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Testing Macroeconometric Models - Bog af Ray C (Yale University) Fair - Hardback

This book gives a practical, applications-oriented account of the latest techniques for estimating and analyzing large, nonlinear macroeconometric models. Anyone wanting to learn how to use these models, including researchers, graduate students, economic forecasters, and people in business and government both in the United States and abroad, will find this an essential guid.

DKK 560.95

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Private Choices and Public Health - The AIDS Epidemic in an Economic Perspective - Bog af Tomas J. Philipson - Hardback

Employs the tools of economic analysis to reassess the orthodox approach to AIDS by the public health community. It examines measures and proposals such as testing, criminal punishments and immigration controls, as well as AIDS education, medical research and the social and fiscal costs of AIDS.

DKK 935.95

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College Admissions for the 21st Century - Bog af Robert J. Sternberg - Hardback

SATs, ACTs, GPAs. Everyone knows that these scores can't tell a college everything that's important about an applicant. But what else should admissions officers look for, and how can they know it when they see it? This title offers a practical approach to college admissions testing.

DKK 381.95

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Family Trees - A History of Genealogy in America - Bog af Francois Weil - Hardback

Americans' long and restless search for identity through family trees illuminates the story of America itself, according to Francois Weil, as preoccupation with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way to an embrace of diversity in one's forebears, pursued through Ancestry.com and advances in DNA testing.

DKK 381.95

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Legally Poisoned - How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants - Bog af Carl F. Cranor - Paperback

Take a random walk through your life and you'll find it is awash in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. In this scientifically rigorous legal analysis, the author argues that just as pharmaceuticals and pesticides cannot be sold without pre-market testing, other chemical products should be subject to the same safety measures.

DKK 242.95

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The Hungry Mind - The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood - Bog af Susan Engel - Paperback

Despite American education's mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Susan Engel offers a highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it develops in childhood, and how educators can put curiosity at the center of the classroom.

DKK 271.95

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Testing Wars in the Public Schools - A Forgotten History - Bog af William J. Reese - Hardback

Despite claims that written exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children's health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. William Reese puts today's battles over standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the history of the pencil-and-paper exam.

DKK 675.95

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Governing the Workplace - Bog af Paul C (Harvard Law School) Weiler - Hardback

Labor lawyer Paul Weiler examines the social and economic changes that have profoundly altered the legal framework of the employment relationship. He not only discusses a wide range of issues, from wrongful dismissal to mandatory drug testing and pay equity, but he also develops a blueprint for the reconstruction of the law of the workplace, especially designed to give American workers more effective representation.

DKK 734.95

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Will and Political Legitimacy - Bog af Dr Patrick (University of Wisconsin Madison) Riley - Hardback

At the heart of representative government is the question: \What makes government and its agents legitimate authorities?\ The notion of consent to a social contract between the citizen and his government is central to this problem. What are the functions of public authority? What are the people's rights in a self-governing and representative state? Patrick Riley presents a comprehensive historical analysis of the meaning of contract theory and a testing of the inherent validity of the ideas of..

DKK 728.95

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Measuring Up - What Educational Testing Really Tells Us - Bog af Daniel Koretz - Paperback

Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing - Bog af Lorraine M. McDonnell - Hardback

Testing Prayer - Science and Healing - Bog af Candy Gunther Brown - Hardback

Testing Macroeconometric Models - Bog af Ray C (Yale University) Fair - Hardback

Private Choices and Public Health - The AIDS Epidemic in an Economic Perspective - Bog af Tomas J. Philipson - Hardback

College Admissions for the 21st Century - Bog af Robert J. Sternberg - Hardback

Family Trees - A History of Genealogy in America - Bog af Francois Weil - Hardback

Legally Poisoned - How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants - Bog af Carl F. Cranor - Paperback

The Hungry Mind - The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood - Bog af Susan Engel - Paperback

Testing Wars in the Public Schools - A Forgotten History - Bog af William J. Reese - Hardback

Governing the Workplace - Bog af Paul C (Harvard Law School) Weiler - Hardback

Will and Political Legitimacy - Bog af Dr Patrick (University of Wisconsin Madison) Riley - Hardback

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