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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 | |
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