Table Of Contents:

• Alternate Assessments
• Common Core State Standards
• Action Research
• Collaboration, Evaluation of
• ABA Designs
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• A Parameter
• Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
• American Evaluation Association
• Consequential Validity Evidence
• Construct-Related Validity Evidence
• Constructivist Approach
• Criterion-Based Validity Evidence
• Box Plot
• Benchmark
• Body of Work Standard Setting Method
• Analytical Scoring
• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Adolescence
• Childhood
• Cognitive Development, Theory of
• Computer-Based Testing
• Abstracts
• APA Format
• Content Analysis
• Behaviorism
• Central Limit Theorem
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Accreditation
• Construct Irrelevance
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
• Motivation
• Applied Research
• Confirmatory Factor Analysis
• Correlation (or Covariance)
• Alignment
• Cross-Classified Models
• Classroom Observation Methods
• Classical Conditioning
• Cooperative Learning
• Concept Mapping
• Classical Test Theory
• ACT Test
• College Success
• Conditional Independence
• Accessibility (in Assessment)
• Content Standard
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Ability-Achievement Discrepancy
• Automated Essay Scoring
• Achievement Tests
• Developmental Disabilities
• Test Bias
• Multiple-Choice Items
• Causal-Comparative Research
• Bubble Drawing
• Collage Technique
• Adaptive Behavior Assessments
• Split-Half Reliability
• Catell-Horn-Caroll Theory of Intelligence
• Ability Tests
• Bilingual Education, Research on
• Analysis of Variance
• Bonferroni Procedure
• Cut Scores, Setting of
• Self-Efficacy
• Coefficient Alpha
• Capacity Building Evaluation
• Measurement Invariance
• Autocorrelation
• Attributional Theory
• Control Variables
• Age Equivalent Scores
• Snowball Sampling
• Angoff Standard Setting Method
• Conceptual Framework
• Concurrent Validity
• Curriculm-Based Assessment
• Curriculum-Based Measurement
• Corporal Punishment
• Dissertations
• Design-Based Research
• Effect Size
• Flynn Effect
• General G Theory of Intelligence
• Hierarchical Regression
• Social Learning
• Cochran Q Test
• Eta-squared
• Interaction
• Deception Studies
• Critical Thinking
• Erikson's Stages of Psychsocial Development
• Collaborative Evaluation
• Basal (or Floor)
• Instructional Sensitivity
• Mixed Methods Research
• Qualitative Data Analysis
• Formative Assessment
• Formative Evaluation
• Progress Monitoring
• Screening Tests
• Decision Consistency
• Bayes' Theorem
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
• Constructed-Response Items
• Computer-Adaptive Testing
• Bar Graphs
• Cognitive Diagnosis
• Conditional Standard Error of Measurement
• Focus Groups
• BILOG-MG (software application)
• Ecological Validity
• American Psychological Association
• File Drawer Problem
• Test Battery
• Evidence -Based Interventions
• External Evaluation
• Ethical Issues in Testing
• Danielson Framework
• Four-Level Evaluation Model
• Delphi Technique
• Evaluation Consultants
• FlexMIRT (software application)
• Feasibility
• Data Mining
• Experimental Design
• Ebel Standard Setting Method
• Emotional Intelligence
• Democratic Evaluation
• Feedback Intervention Theory
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Empowerment Evaluation
• Authentic Assessment
• Evaluation Versus Research
• Exploratory Factor Analysis
• Standard Setting
• Discriminant Analysis
• Culturally Responsive Evaluations
• Evaluation, Definition of
• Evaluation, History of
• Ethical Issues in Evaluation
• Declaration of Helsinki
• Feminist Evaluation
• Dysgraphia
• Dyslexia
• Wechsler Intelligence Tests
• Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement
• Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability
• Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Oral Language
• Cheating
• Differential Item Functioning (DIF)
• Evidence-Centered Design
• Areas Under the Normal Curve
• Classification
• Curriculum
• Instructional Objectives
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Distance Learning
• Creativity
• Social Network Analysis
• Descriptive Statistics
• Inter-Quartile Range
• Levels of Measurement
• Meta-Analysis
• Ordinal-Level Measurement
• Educational Testing Service (ETS)
• Canonical Correlation
• Bernoulli Distribution
• B Parameter
• C Parameter
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Utilization-Focused Evaluation
• Inter-Rater Reliability
• Test-Retest Reliability
• Summative Evaluation
• Anxiety
• Item Response Theory (IRT)
• Fisher Exact Test
• Asian-Americans and Testing
• Grade Equivalent Scores
• Goals and Objectives
• Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation
• Histograms
• Internal Validity
• Judgment Sampling
• Objectivity
• Validity
• R (software application)
• Montessori Schools, Research on
• Falsified Data, Historical Cases of
• Item Analysis
• Goal-Free Evaluation
• Guiding Principles for Evaluators
• Holistic Scoring
• Kappa Coefficient of Agreement
• Inclusion
• Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
• Educational Psychology
• Accommodations
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Kruskal-Wallis Test
• Kurtosis
• Confidentiality
• Conflict of Interest
• Friedman Test
• Mann-Whitney Test
• Internal Evaluation
• Generalizability Theory
• Validity, History of
• Andragogy
• Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
• Growth Curve Modeling
• Likert Scaling
• Locus of Control
• Propensity Scores
• Item Development
• Power
• Power Analysis
• Type II Error
• Ethnography
• Triangulation
• Readability
• Reading Comprehension
• Reading Assessment
• Rasch Model
• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS)
• Construct Underrepresentation
• Hispanic-Americans and Testing
• Ethical Issues in Educational Research
• Field Notes
• Naturalistic Inquiry
• Trustworthiness
• 45 CFR part 46
• Belmont Report
• Human Subjects Protections
• Human Subjects Research, Definition of
• Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
• Grading
• Licensure
• Item Information Function
• Inferential Statistics
• Learning Disorders
• Treatment Integrity
• Universal Design of Assessment
• Binomial Test
• Interviews
• Member Check
• Cluster Analysis
• Cluster Sampling
• Levene's Homogeneity of Variance Test
• Local Independence
• Buros Mental Measurement Yearbook
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Omega (Reliability Estimate)
• Path Analysis
• Premack Principle
• Reinforcement
• Positivism
• Postpositivism
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation
• School Psychology
• Race to the Top
• Mastery learning
• Latin Square Design
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Johari Window
• Kinesthetic Learning
• Kaufman-ABC Intelligence Test
• Psychometrics
• Kelly Grid
• Analysis of Covariance
• Grounded Theory
• Multiple Linear Regression
• Simple Linear Regression
• Intellectual Disability
• Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test
• HLM (software application)
• School-Wide Positive Behavioral Support
• Single-Case Research
• Specificity
• Learning Progressions
• Chi-Squared Test
• Lexiles
• Learning Maps
• Gauss-Markov Theorem
• Universal Design in Education
• Minority Issues in Evaluation
• Needs Assessment
• Professional Development of Teachers
• Professional Learning Communities
• Technology in Classroom Assessment
• Winsorizing
• Robust Statistics
• AMOS (software application)
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
• Placebo Effect
• Bipolar Disorder
• Computer Programming in Quantitative Analysis
• Matrix Algebra
• Interval-Level Measurement
• Hawthorne Effect
• Causal Inference
• Least Restrictive Environment
• Quantitative Research Methods
• Service Learning
• Prior Distribution
• C Programming Languages
• Structural Equation Modeling
• Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Score Linking
• Standard Deviation
• Longitudinal Data Analysis
• Program Evaluation
• Pretest-Post-Test Designs
• Quasi-Experimental Design
• Assent
• Learned Helplessness
• Bayesian Statistics
• Informed Consent
• Intelligence Tests
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Methods
• Alpha Level
• P Value
• Fill-in-the-Blank Items
• Learning Styles
• Learning Theories
• Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
• Gender and Testing
• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Teacher Evaluation
• Teachers’ Associations
• Observer Effect
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Literacy
• Estimation Bias
• PARSCALE (software application)
• Attentuation, Correction for
• Convenience Sampling
• Interviewer Bias
• Literature Review
• Aptitude-Treatment Interaction
• Parameter Random Error
• Admissions Tests
• Accountability
• Equating
• True Score
• Proficiency Levels
• Authorship
• Demographics
• Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
• Representativeness
• Phenomenology
• Active Learning
• Content-Related Validity Evidence
• Monte Carlo Simulation Studies
• Instructional Theory
• ISO 20252
• Resilience
• Paradigm Shift
• Convergence
• Self-Regulation
• Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) data
• Predictive Validity
• Testlet Response Theory
• Missing Data Analysis
• Nuremberg Code
• Metacognition
• Projective Tests
• Sensitivity
• Socio-Emotional Learning
• Pygmalion Effect
• Social Cognitive Theory
• African-Americans and Testing
• Cross-Cultural Research
• Bootstrapping
• Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MMLE)
• Multidimensional IRT
• Time Series Analysis
• No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
• Self-Directed Learning
• Nominal-Level Measurement
• Process Evaluation
• School Leadership
• National Council on Measurement in Education
• Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
• SAS (software application)
• Student Self-Assessment
• Survival Analysis
• Speeded Tests
• Working Memory
• Skewness
• Social Desirability
• Restriction of Range
• Beck Depression Inventory
• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
• Multicultural Validity
• Raven's Progressive Matrices
• Test Security
• Poisson Distribution
• Sociometric Assessment
• Written Language Assessment
• Test Information Function
• Thurstone Scaling
• Social Justice
• T Scores
• T Tests
• Gain Scores, Analysis of
• Attention
• Mantel-Haentzel Test
• Stepwise Regression
• Simpson's Paradox
• Wicked Problems
• Vertical Scaling
• Short-Term Memory
• Value-Added Models
• Soloman Four-Group Design
• English Language Proficiency Assessment
• Second Language Learners, Assessment of
• Discourse Analysis
• Participant Observation
• State Standards
• Attitude Scales
• Semantic Differential Scaling
• Split-Plot Design
• Content Validity Ratio
• Median Test
• Modified Angoff Standard Setting Method
• Discrimination Index
• Difficulty Index
• Pragmatic Paradigm
• Puberty
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Testing, History of
• Primary Trait Scoring
• Improvement Science Research
• Data
• Stanines
• Reliability
• Decile
• Quartiles
• Unitary View of Validity
• High-Stakes Tests
• Pilot Studies
• Cramer's V Coefficient
• Scatterplots
• Technology Enhanced Items
• Dummy Variables
• Percentile Rank
• Performance-Based Assessment
• Giftedness
• Personality Assessment
• Terman Study of the Gifted
• Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
• Diagnostic Tests
• R2
• Regression Toward the Mean
• Residuals
• Journal Articles
• Research Proposals
• Document Analysis
• Homeschooling
• Pearson Correlation Coefficient
• Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance
• SPSS (software application)
• Historical Research
• Zone of Proximal Development
• Compliance
• Debriefing
• Curriculum Mapping
• Matrices (in Social Network Analysis)
• Multi-Dimensional Scaling
• STEM Fields
• Response to Intervention (RTI)
• Essay Items
• Spearman-Brown Prophecy Formula
• Program Theory of Change
• R for Social Network Analysis Software
• Significance
• Hierarchical Linear Modeling
• Scales
• Diagnostic Classification Modeling
• Phi Coefficient (in Generalizability Theory)
• Rubrics
• Success Case Method
• Selection Items
• Rankings
• Matching Items
• Normal Distribution
• Standard Error of Measurement
• Variance
• Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• Data Visualization Methods
• Odds Ratios
• Phi Correlation Coefficient
• Spearman Correlation Coefficient
• Two-Way Chi-Squared (or contingency table analysis)
• Special Education Identification
• Parameter Invariance
• Generalizability
• EQS (software application)
• Hypothesis Testing
• Quota Sampling
• Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test
• IRTPRO (software application)
• Survey Methods
• Surveys
• Zelen's Randomized Consent Design
• Dyadic Data Analysis
• Logistic Regression
• STATA (software application)
• Model-Data Fit
• Nvivo (software application)
• Guttman Scaling
• Participatory Evaluation
• Quantitative Literacy
• Reverse Scoring
• Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
• F Distribution
• True-False Items
• Standards-Based Assessment
• Response Rate
• World Education Research Association
• Two-Way Analysis of Variance
• Repeated Measures Designs
• Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
• John Henry Effect
• Operant Conditioning
• Responsive Evaluation
• Weighting (in sampling)
• U.S. Department of Education
• Replication
• Market Research
• Threats to Research Validity
• Latent Class Analysis
• Network Centrality
• Network Cohesion
• Network Density
• Parameter Mean Squared Error
• Table of Specifications
• Auditing
• Ipsative Scales
• Scree Plot
• Double Blind Design
• Mediation Analysis
• Every Student Succeeds Act
• Developmental Evaluation
• Probit Transformation
• Internal Consistency
• Posterior Distribution
• Expert Sampling
• Stakeholders
• Bayley Scales of Infant Development
• American Educational Research Association
• Sample Size
• Educational Researchers, Training of
• Portfolio Assessment
• Item Banking
• Moments of a Distribution
• Triple Blind Studies
• Distributions
• Experimental Phonetics
• Normal Curve Equivalent Score
• Norm-Referenced Interpretation
• Static Group Comparison Design
• Measures of Central Tendency
• Measures of Variability
• Regression Discontinuity Analysis
• Head Start
• Transformative Paradigm
• Laddering
• Coleman Report
• Transcription
• Federally Sponsored Research and Programs
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)
• Impartiality
• Rating Scales
• Instrumentation
• Policy Research
• Summative Assessment
• Scaffolding
• Testwiseness
• Out-of-School Activities
• Selection Bias
• Random Assignment
• Random Selection
• Non-Experimental Design
• Mixed Models Analysis of Variance
• Iowa Test of Basic Skills
• Dropouts
• Norming
• Type III Error
• Consumer-Oriented Evaluation Approach
• Inputs
• Policy Evaluation
• Instructional Rounds
• Validity Coefficients
• Validity Generalization
• Confidence Interval
• Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix
• Stratified Random Sampling
• Certification
• Deception Studies
• Transfer
• Ucinet (Software Application)
• Outcomes
• Maturation
• Delta Plot
• Post-Hoc Analysis
• Multivariate Analysis of Variance
• Simple Random Sampling
• Z Scores
• Graphical modeling
• Power Tests
• LISREL (Software Application)
• Mplus
• Systematic Sampling
• Twin Studies
• McNemar Change Test
• Punishment
• Standardized Tests
• Dropouts
• Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Data
• Mood Board
• Part Correlations (or Semi-Partial Correlations)
• Partial Correlations
• Excel (Software Application)
• Multiple Intelligences, Theory of
• Standardized Scores
• Information Processing Theory
• Kindergarten
• W-Difference Scores
• Merit
• Scientific Method
• Personnel Evaluation
• Self-Report Inventories
• Order Effects
• Non-Response Bias
• Results Section
• Minimum Competency Testing
• Tests
• Pre-Experimental Designs
• Values
• Crossover Design
• Visual Analog Scales
• Problem-Solving
• Reactive Arrangements
• Generalized Linear Mixed Models
• Paper-and-Pencil Assessment
• Long Term Memory
• Supply Items
• Score Reporting
• Speech-Language Pathology
• CIPP Evaluation Model
• HyperResearch (software application)
• Posttest-Only Control Group Design
• Mortality
• Educational Research, History of
• Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
• Criterion-Referenced Interpretation
• Waldorf Schools
• Goodness-of-Fit Tests
• Holm's Sequential Bonferroni Procedure
• ATLAS.ti (software application)
• Parenting Styles
• Backward Design
• Narrative Research
• Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
• Bookmark Method
• Games-Based Assessment
• SAT Test
• Type I Error
• Methods Section
• Case Study Method
• School Vouchers
• Adultism
• Volume 1
• List of Entries
• Reader’s Guide
• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Entries
• A
• B
• C
• Volume 2
• List of Entries
• Entries
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• Volume 3
• List of Entries
• Entries
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• Volume 4
• List of Entries
• Entries
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• Z
• Appendix A: Resource Guide
• Appendix B: Chronology
• Index
• Logic Models
• Great Society Programs
• Cultural Competence
• Advocacy in Evaluation