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The right kinds of tests, correctly applied, can help every teacher become a better teacher. But unless you know the nuts and bolts of effective test design and application, you may be collecting the wrong data; misinterpreting data; and drawing off-base conclusions about what students know and can do, what to teach next, and how effective your instruction has been.

In Test Better, Teach Better, assessment expert W. James Popham explores the links between assessment and instruction and provides a jargon-free look at classroom and large-scale test construction, interpretation, and application. Featuring sample items, testing tips, and recommended resources, this ""crash course"" in instructionally focused assessment includes: The four types of instructional decisions that testing will illuminate. What you really need to know about measurement concepts like validity, reliability, and bias. The advantages and disadvantages of various test formats and experience-based rules for creating great items in each. The benefits of assessing student affect and guidelines for doing it in your own classroom.

In addition, Popham offers practical advice for dealing with today's myriad testing targets and explains how standards-based achievement tests currently don't (but could) provide both accountability evidence and useful instructional information.

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This volume is a must for both new and experienced teachers. Testing and test design have been problematic for most teachers since their preservice days in teacher education programs. Often, a statistical instructor would advise on how to write a test and teach students about validity and reliability, only to have their charges misunderstand and misinterpret what they were teaching. Popham does an admirable job of making the connection between testing and practical application. In jargon-free language he guides readers through the connections between instruction and assessment, test construction, interpretation, and application. In an easy-to-read format the author examines the main arguments of testing for assessment purposes and gives an excellent rationale for the instructional role of assessment. Four key elements of this volume are (1) four different types of instructional decisions that testing helps to illuminate; (2) straightforward discussions of validity, reliability and bias; (3) advantages and disadvantages of various test formats and how to design items in each category; and (4) the benefits of assessing student affect. A must-read for educators concerned with effective assessment tools. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. G. L. Willhite Southern Illinois University