did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9781412979795

Everything School Leaders Need to Know About Assessment

by
  • ISBN13:

    9781412979795

  • ISBN10:

    141297979X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-04-15
  • Publisher: Corwin Pr

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $32.95 Save up to $13.18
  • Rent Book $19.77
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 24-48 HOURS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

W. James Popham, one of the most well-known and respected experts in educational assessment, discusses the key principles new and seasoned school leaders need to know about educational assessment to do their work effectively.Readers will come away with crucial understandings that allow them to lead assessment of learning, meet accountability requirements, and communicate knowledgeably about accountability and test results with students, parents, the media, and the public. Using plain language, a witty and engaging writing style, and practical examples, Popham covers:- Validity, reliability, and assessment bias- The importance of formative assessment- Assessing students with disabilities and English language learners- Interpreting results of large-scale assessments- Instructional sensitivity of accountability testsEverything School Leaders Need to Know About Assessment is a concise, authoritative guide to a topic that all educational leaders must understand in these critical times.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Why Do We Test?
The Role of Assessment
Coping with the Covert
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Unwarranted Perceptions of Precision
Crucial Understandings
Recommended Reading
Validity: Assessment's Cornerstone
The Validity of Inferences
Collecting Validity Evidence: Three Coins in the Fountain
Crucial Understandings
Recommended Reading
Test Reliability
Three Kinds of Consistency
Assessment Consistency for Individual Students
Reliability and Validity: Strange Bedfellows?
Crucial Understandings
Recommended Reading
Assessment Bias
What is Assessment Bias?
Why is Assessment Bias So Reprehensible?
Reducing Assessment Bias
Crucial Understandings
Recommended Reading
Instructional Sensitivity
Different Quests for Different Tests
Mistaken Evaluations of Schooling
What is Instructional Sensitivity?
Determining an Accountability Test's Instructional Sensitivity
What's a School Leader to Do?
Crucial Understandings
Recommended Reading
Test Construction
Purpose as the Measurement Motivator
A Three-Component Game Plan
Item Development
Item Improvement
Test Assembly
Crucial Understandings
Recommended Reading
Rubrics: Potentially Potent Evaluative Tools
What Makes Up a Rubric?
Determining a Rubric's Quality
Crucial Understandings
Recommended Reading
Formative Assessment: Underused Magic Bullet
What is Formative Assessment
What Evidence Supports Formative Assessment?
How Does Formative Assessment Function?
Once Over, Very Lightly
Crucial Understandings
Recommended Reading
Assessing Students' Affect
Why Mess Around with Affect?
How to Assess Students' Affect
Building an Affective Inventory
Crucial Understandings
Recommended Reading
"Top 20" Crucial Understandings About Educational Assessment
Understanding the Understandings
Spreading the Word
The Top-20 List
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading Roundup
Index
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program