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A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
A comprehensive history of data visualization—its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems.With complex information everywhere, graphics have become …
Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary
A scientific revolution began at the end of the eighteenth century with the invention and popularization of the graphic display of data by the remarkable Scot, William Playfair. …
Graphic Discovery
Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet …
Truth or Truthiness
Teacher tenure is a problem. Teacher tenure is a solution. Fracking is safe. Fracking causes earthquakes. Our kids are over-tested. Our kids are not tested enough. We read claims …
Visual Revelations
To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace. The most efficient way to do this is through data-based graphics. This book is an …
Drawing Inferences From Self-selected Samples
This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected …
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications
The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory) to models that focus on …
Visual Revelations
This extraordinary book provides a journey through the jungle of good and bad graphical devices used to illustrate and obfuscate data. The diversity of examples is tremendous: …
Test Scoring
Test Scoring provides a summary of traditional true score test theory and modern item response theory related to scoring tests, as well as novel developments resulting from the …
Uneducated Guesses
What statistical evidence shows us about our misguided educational policiesUneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education …
Differential Item Functioning
Test fairness is a moral imperative for both the makers and the users of tests. This book focuses on methods for detecting test items that function differently for different groups …
Test Validity
Technological and theoretical changes over the past decade have altered the way we think about test validity. This book addresses the present and future concerns raised by these …