Test better, teach better : the instructional role of assessment /

Ideas and strategies for mining assessment data to determine what kind of instruction would likely improve student achievement.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Popham, W. James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, ©2003.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0871208822
9780871208828
9781416601210
141660121X
9780871209344
0871209349
9780871206671
0871206676
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The links between testing and teaching
  • How tests can clarify the curriculum
  • Too many testing targets
  • Validity, reliability, and bias
  • An introduction to test-building
  • Selected-response items
  • Constructed-response items
  • The value of affective assessment
  • Uses and misuses of standardized achievement tests
  • Instructionally supportive standards-based tests
  • Collecting credible classroom evidence of instructional impact
  • Epilogue, Cora in her classroom : an illustration of instructionally focused testing.