Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need To Know, 7th Edition

AUTHOR: W.JAMES POPHAM

For students taking assessment courses in educational psychology or tests and measurement departments.

 Written with energy and wit, this reader-friendly text discusses practical ways in which teachers can develop and use well-written tests to improve their effectiveness in the classroom.

Table of Contents

1 Why Do Teachers Need to Know about Assessment?    

2 Deciding What to Assess and How to Assess It    

3   Reliability of Assessment    

4   Validity    

5   Absence-of-Bias    

6   Selected-Response Tests    

7   Constructed-Response Tests    

8   Performance Assessment    

9   Portfolio Assessment    

10 Affective Assessment    

11 Improving Teacher-Developed Assessments   

12 Formative Assessment    

13 Making Sense Out of Standardized Test Scores   

14 Appropriate and Inappropriate Test-Preparation Practices  

15 The Evaluation of Instruction   

16 Assessment-Based Grading

Extended Applications

Glossary

Index