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James (Jay) C. Powell, Ph.D. and others
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Excepts
from Writings; Models
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Quotes
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Related Research, Mathematics and Computer Science,
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Fixing Education (June, 2009)
Are you
concerned with “No Child Left Behind?”
Presentations
and Publications, James C. Powell, Ph.D.
· James C. Powell,
“Testing as Feedback; Applying and Interpreting Response Spectrum Analysis and
Interpretation (RSAI) ,” Presentation, IADIS-CELDA Conference in Freiburg im
Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, October 13, 2008; see http://www.celda-conf.org/
· James C. Powell: “Observing Learning Using All Answers: A Commentary on
Test-Scoring Practices,” Presentation for the 73rd Meeting of the Psychometric
Society (IMPS 2008, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH), July 1, 2008. See: http://www.psychometrika.org/meeting/2008/program.pdf
· Powell, J. C.
"Multinomial Analysis and its Applications in Health Care Education and
Research," Second WorldVistA Education Seminar, RMU, Moon Township, PA,
May 2008. See http://worldvista.org/Conferences/2nd-worldvista-education-seminar-agenda
· Powell, J. C. and
Shklov, N. (1992) Obtaining information about learners’ thinking strategies
from wrong answers on multiple-choice tests, The Journal of Educational and Psychological Measurement, 52,
847-865.
· regarding Jay
Powell’s presentation at the Psychometric Society 54th
Annual Meeting July 6–9, 1989, please see: http://www.springerlink.com/content/87264610018m6518/
· Powell, J. C. and
Miki, H. (1985) Answer anomalies, how serious? Paper presented to the Psychometric Society 50th
Anniversary Meeting,
· regarding Jay
Powell’s and Norm Shklov’s presentation at the Joint
meeting of the Classification Society and the Psychometric Society June 25–27,
1984 University of California Santa Barbara, California, please see: http://www.springerlink.com/content/m503140064816516/
· Powell, J. C. (1977)
The developmental sequence of cognition as revealed by wrong answers, Alberta Journal of Educational Research
XXIII (1) 43 – 51. Table 2 is reproduced with slight modification from page
46.
· Powell, J. C. (1968)
The interpretation of wrong answers from a multiple-choice test, Educational and Psychological Measurement
28, 403 – 412.
About Dr. Norm Shklov, Honorary Member of
the Statistical Society of Canada (Société Statistique du Canada) and Founding
Member of the Windsor University Retirees Association, see http://math.usask.ca/aboutmath/details.html
and http://www.ssc.ca/documents/SSCarticle14(1).pdf
and http://www.ssc.ca/main/about/awards_e.html
Dr. Jay C. Powell, retired from the Faculty of Education at the
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, is currently teaching part time in the
School of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science, at Robert Morris University,
For e-mail contact, please write to powellj at rmu dot edu .
For postal mail contact, please write to Dr. Jay C. Powell,
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