The Role of Rubrics in Testing and Teaching, Mastering Assessment A Self-Service System for Educators, Pamphlet 13

by Popham, W. James

• ISBN13: 9780132734943
• ISBN10: 013273494X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-05
• Publisher: Pearson

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

What’s In a Name?

When To Use a Rubric?

Why Use a Rubric?

What’s In a Rubric?

            Evaluative Criteria

            Quality Distinctions for the Evaluative Criteria

            Application Strategy

An Unwarranted Reverence for Rubrics

Rubrics – The Rancid and the Rapturous

            Hypergeneral Rubrics

            Task-Specific Rubrics

            Skill-Focused Rubrics

Judging Rubrics

            Varied Formats, Qualitative Differences

            A Rubric to Evaluate Rubrics