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The new sixth edition is a user-friendly text filled with features, practical classroom information, and self-assessment exercises. This text covers classroom assessment,No Child Left Behind, formative assessments, instructor accountability, assessment reliability, and assessment validity. Written for pre-service teachers taking courses on assessment.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• 1 Why Do Teachers Need to Know about Assessment
• 2 Reliability of Assessment
• 3 Validity
• 4 Absence-of-Bias
• 5 Deciding What to Assess and How to Assess It
• 6 Selected-Response Tests
• 7 Constructed-Response Tests
• 8 Performance Assessment
• 9 Portfolio Assessment
• 10 Affective Assessment
• 11 Improving Teacher-Developed Assessments
• 12 Instructionally Oriented Assessment
• 13 Making Sense Out of Standardized Test Scores
• 14 Appropriate and Inappropriate Test-Preparation Practices
• 15 Evaluating Teaching and Grading Students
• Glossary
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

W. James Popham began his career as a high school teacher in Oregon. He is professor emeritus at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. The author of 30 books, and a former president of the American Educational Research Association, he is the recipient of the National Council on Measurement in Education Award for Career Contributions to Educational Measurement.