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Test better, teach better : the instructional role of assessment / W. James Popham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Popham, W. James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational tests and measurements.
- Examinations.
- Effective teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ideas and strategies for mining assessment data to determine what kind of instruction would likely improve student achievement.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-87120-934-9
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