Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need To Know, 5/E

by POPHAM

• ISBN13: 9780205510757
• ISBN10: 0205510752
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780137002337, 9780205412563
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: PEARSON
• More Book Details

Summary

Written with style and whimsey, this text focuses on what classroom teachers really need to know about assessment rather than looking at a collection of measurement esoterica. This well-written book is grounded in the reality of teaching today to show real-world teachers who want to use assessment in their classrooms the latest tools necessary to teach more effectively. The fifth edition ofClassroom Assessmentaddresses the range of assessments that teachers are likely to use in their classrooms. With expanded coverage of problems related to measurement of special education children, a new student website with online activities, and an improved instructorrs"s manual, this book continues to be a cutting edge and indispensable resource not only for instructors, but also pre and in-service teachers.

Table of Contents

To The Reader

Why Do Teachers Need to Know about Assessment

Federal Laws Rule

Assessment versus Testing

Why Should Teachers Know about Assessment?

Yesteryearrsquo;s Answers

Why Should Teachers Know about Assessment?

Todayrsquo;s Answers

Decision Time:Pressure from ldquo;Higher Upsrdquo;

What Do Classroom Teachers Really Need to Know about Assessment?

But What Does This Have to Do with Teaching?

Parent Talk

A Three-Chapter Preview

Chapter Summary

Self-Check

Pondertime

Self-Check Key

Additional Stuff

Nonprint Stuff

Cyber Stuff

Reliability of Assessment

Stability Reliability

Decision Time:Quibbling over Quizzes

Alternate-Form Reliability

Internal Consistency Reliability

Three Coins in the Reliability Fountain

Parent Talk

The Standard Error of Measurement

But What Does This Have to Do with Teaching?

What Do Classroom Teachers Really Need to Know about Reliability?

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