Applications of Educational Measurement: I s Optimum Optimal?

What would you do if you were asked to design an “optimal” school testing program, but had doubts about the criteria to apply? What strategies might help us make more use of performance assessment and computer-adaptive testing in district-level testing programs? Can an NCME President be whimsical when delivering her presidential address?     

Factors Influencing Intrajudge Consistency During Standard-Setting

What factors influence judges when they set standards? How do judges, test questions, and the standard-setting process interact? How can we improve intrajudge consistency?     

美国科技编辑概况

体例手册和其他的资源在美国 ,科技编辑使用各种体例手册和其他的资源。一些最流行的体例手册和其他资源介绍如下。被广泛使用的手册《科技体例与版式》是为所有科技领域的作者、编辑和出版社设计的。它除提供关于科技出版写作形式和版式的一般性指导外 ,还包括广泛的各科技领域的科技规范 (如 :学术用语标准 )。《科技体例与版式》的新版本将在 2 0 0 4年出版。《芝加哥体例手册》被各种学术领域中的编辑广泛使用 ,尤其被广泛使用于学术图书出版社 ,包括科技出版社。该手册的一个新版本将在 2 0 0 3年下半年问世。在美国 ,还有在一些特殊的…     

Music publishing & collecting: Essays in honor of Donald W. Krummel : Hunter, David (Ed.). Urbana, IL: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994. 252 pp. $45.00 (ISBN 0-87845-095-5)

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IPOP: A Theory of Experience Preference

The theory and practice of IPOP emerged from structured observations and interviews with visitors to the Smithsonian Institution museums in Washington, D.C. from the 1990s to the present—a dataset useful in constructing a long view. This research has had one overarching intention: to serve museum visitors better, that is, to provide visitors with experiences that are above average, special, significant, and memorable. In numerous studies and interviews during the last 16 years, visitors have repeatedly spoken about their reactions to Smithsonian museum exhibitions in four typologies distilling their primary interests: I = ideas, P = people, O = objects, and—as we were obliged to add at a later stage—a second P for “physical.” The evidence suggests that exhibitions that strongly appeal to all four visitor typologies will be highly successful with visitors.