The ABCs of Educational Testing

Demystifying the Tools That Shape Our Schools

W. James Popham

• Verlag: Corwin
• Jahr: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781506351551
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Education
• Thema: Evaluation & Assessment in Education

Amplify your assessment literacy. Formative, data-driven, high-stakes—we all know the buzzwords surrounding educational testing. But we often shelve our understanding of these because they are overwhelmingly complex. Those who care about our schools and students—teachers, administrators, policymakers, parents, citizens—will discover how and why testing should be taken upon ourselves to advance. Using a nontechnical approach, this book offers fundamental knowledge to free you from testing fogginess—all framed around practical actions you can take to strengthen your assessment literacy. Inappropriate tests are leading to mistaken decisions, and this book provides everything you need to know to change that, including

• Reasons for tests
• Reliability/validity
• Fairness
• Test-building

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Author
• 1 Why Fuss With Educational Testing?
• 2 Three Primary Purposes of Educational Testing1
• 3 Behind Standardized Testing’s Cloudy Curtain
• 4 Validity The Crux of the Caper
• 5 Reliability Considering Consistency in Inconsistent Containers
• 6 Fairness in Testing A Long Time Coming
• 7 Reporting Results Where Rubber and Road Meet
• 8 Formative Assessment Instructional Magic?
• 9 Students’ Affect Underappreciated, Undermeasured
• 10 What Next?
• Glossary
• References
• Index
• Publisher Note