Classroom assessment : what teachers need to know / W. James Popham
Imprint
Boston, Ma : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2008
Edition
5th ed.
Descript
xviii, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Why do teachers need to know about assessment? -- Reliability of assessment -- Validity -- Absence-of-bias -- Deciding what to assess and how to assess it -- Selected-response tests -- Constructed-response tests -- Performance assessment -- Portfolio assessment -- Affective assessment -- Improving teacher-developed assessments -- Making sense out of standardized test scores -- Appropriate and inapropriate test-preparation practices -- Evaluating teachers and grading students