Measuring Up

What Educational Testing Really Tells Us

Daniel Koretz

  • 2009 Outstanding Book Award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
  • Prologue
  1. If Only It Were So Simple
  2. What Is a Test?
  3. What We Measure: Just How Good Is the Sample?
  4. The Evolution of American Testing
  5. What Test Scores Tell Us about American Kids
  6. What Influences Test Scores, or How Not to Pick a School
  7. Error and Reliability: How Much We Don't Know What We're Talking About
  8. Reporting Performance: Standards and Scales
  9. Validity
  10. Inflated Test Scores
  11. Adverse Impact and Bias
  12. Testing Students with Special Needs
  13. Sensible Uses of Tests
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Cover: Measuring Up

Daniel Koretz is Professor of Education at Harvard University.