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9780132734875

Appropriate and Inappropriate Tests for Evaluating Schools, Mastering Assessment A Self-Service System for Educators, Pamphlet 1

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  • ISBN13:

    9780132734875

  • ISBN10:

    0132734877

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-06-02
  • Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

MASTERING ASSESSMENT BOOKLETS " Appropriate and Inappropriate Tests for Evaluating Schools " Assessing Students’ Affect " Assessing Students with Disabilities " Assessment Bias: How to Banish It " Classroom Evidence of Successful Teaching " College Entrance Examinations: The SAT and the ACT " Constructed-Response Tests: Building and Bettering " How Testing Can Help Teaching " Interpreting the Results of Large-Scale Assessments " Portfolio Assessment and Performance Testing " Reliability: What Is It and Is It Necessary? " Selected-Response Tests: Building and Bettering " The Role of Rubrics in Testing andTeaching " Test Preparation: Sensible or Sordid? " Validity: Assessment’s Cornerstone

Author Biography

W. James Popham is a nationally recognized expert on educational testing. For 30 years he taught courses at UCLA in instructional methods for prospective teachers, and courses in evaluation and measurement. He has also authored over 25 books in the fields of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Table of Contents

The Emergence of Test-Based Accountability

            A Source of National Pride

            The Arrival of ESEA

            A Profession Sleeps

            What Can Be Done?

Two Types of Instructionally Insensitive Tests

            Traditionally Constructed Standardized Achievement Tests

            In Pursuit of Score-Spread

            Linking Items to Suitably Spread Variables

            Standards-Based Tests Built for a Particular State

Instructionally Sensitive Accountability Tests

            A Manageable Number of Extraordinarily Significant Curricular Aims

            Succinct, Teacher-Palatable Assessment Descriptions

            Reports for Each Curricular Aim for Individual Students

            Instructionally Meaningful Reports

A Continuum of Instructional Sensitivity

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