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Title: Interesting but too wide ranging and not detailed enough
Review: The book claims to be a comprehensive guide to writing test items in several areas. It covers a diverse range of test items, from multiple choice questions to setting and scoring student portfolios. What it says is interesting, but it covers too wide a ground to be able to be comprehensive with its 260 pages in any one area, and ends up being useful as an introduction, but not too useful as a comprehensive resource.For example, it has 22 pages on statistical analysis on item responses, which is enough to whet the appetite, but not enough to answer all or even most of one's questions. I also found the layout and style slightly confusing.It's not a bad book, but it's not really clear what the book's purpose is. It might have been better for it to focus on one area in more depth, or else to market it as an introduction, and at a more reasonable price.
