Test Better Teach Better The Instructional Role of Assessment 1st Edition by James Popham 9781416601210 141660121X

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ISBN 10: 141660121X
ISBN 13: 9781416601210 
Author: W. James Popham 

The right kinds of tests, correctly applied, can help every teacher become a better teacher. But unless you know the nuts and bolts of effective test design and application, you may be collecting the wrong data; misinterpreting data; and drawing off-base conclusions about what students know and can do, what to teach next, and how effective your instruction has been.

In Test Better, Teach Better, assessment expert W. James Popham explores the links between assessment and instruction and provides a jargon-free look at classroom and large-scale test construction, interpretation, and application. Featuring sample items, testing tips, and recommended resources, this “crash course” in instructionally focused assessment includes* The four types of instructional decisions that testing will illuminate.

* What you really need to know about measurement concepts like validity, reliability, and bias.

* The advantages and disadvantages of various test formats and experience-based rules for creating great items in each.

* The benefits of assessing student affect and guidelines for doing it in your own classroom.

In addition, Popham offers practical advice for dealing with today’s myriad testing targets and explains how standards-based achievement tests currently don’t (but could) provide both accountability evidence and useful instructional information.

Test Better Teach Better The Instructional Role of Assessment 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Links Between Testing and Teaching

Chapter 2: How Tests Can Clarify the Curriculum

Chapter 3: Too Many Testing Targets

Chapter 4: Validity, Reliability, and Bias

Chapter 5: An Introduction to Test Building

Chapter 6: Selected-Response Items

Chapter 7: Constructed-Response Items

Chapter 8: The Value of Affective Assessment

Chapter 9: Uses and Misuses of Standardized Achievement Tests

Chapter 10: Instructionally Supportive Standards-Based Tests

Chapter 11: Collecting Credible Classroom Evidence of Instructional Impact

Epilogue: Cora in Her Classroom: An Illustration of Instructionally Focused Testing

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