Portfolio Assessment and Performance Testing, Pamphlet 10 (Mastering Assessment: A Self-Service System for Educators) - Softcover

Popham, W. James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132734869 ISBN 13: 9780132734868

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

Different curricular aims call for different assessment strategies, as this booklet, Portfolio Assessment and Performance Testing, readily explains. Read on for step-by-step guidance about how to create these two types of essential assessment tools, as well as a frank discussion of the pros and cons of each. 

 

The Mastering Assessment series is a set of fifteen practical, easy-to-use booklets covering a wide range of topics related to educational assessment and accountability. These groundbreaking booklets put the most relevant information on assessment at teachers’ fingertips and provide an important resource for educators looking to learn the ins and outs of becoming “assessment literate.” Paired with the series' F acilitator's Guide (available for download at no additional charge from Pearson's Instructor Resource Center), Mastering Assessment is the perfect tool for building assessment literacy either in self-study or a professional development program.  

 

 

Don't miss all the books in the Mastering Assessment Series by W. James Popham:

· Appropriate and Inappropriate Tests for Evaluating Schools

· Assessing Students’ Affect

· Assessing Students with Disabilities

· Assessment Bias: How to Banish It

· Classroom Evidence of Successful Teaching

· College Entrance Examinations: The SAT and the ACT

· Constructed-Response Tests: Building and Bettering

· How Testing Can Help Teaching

· Interpreting the Results of Large-Scale Assessments

· Portfolio Assessment and Performance Testing

· Reliability: What Is It and Is It Necessary?

· Selected-Response Tests: Building and Bettering

· The Role of Rubrics in Testing and Teaching

· Test Preparation: Sensible or Sordid?

· Validity: Assessment’s Cornerstone

About this title

From the Back Cover

· What type of student work is most appropriately assessed in a portfolio rather than a performance test?

· How can performance tests be used to assess students’ mastery of certain high-level cognitive skills?

· How can a portfolio of student work nurture students’ self-evaluation skills?

 

Different curricular aims call for different assessment strategies, as this booklet, Portfolio

Assessment and Performance Testing, readily explains. Read on for step-by-step guidance

about how to create these two types of essential assessment tools, as well as a frank

discussion of the pros and cons of each. 

 

MASTERING ASSESSMENT is a set of fifteen practical, easy-to-use booklets covering a

wide range of topics related to educational assessment and accountability. These groundbreaking

booklets put the most relevant information on assessment at teachers’ fi ngertips

and provide an important resource for educators looking to learn the ins and outs of

becoming “assessment literate.”

 

W. James Popham is a nationally recognized expert on educational testing. For 30 years

he taught courses at UCLA in instructional methods for prospective teachers, and courses

in evaluation and measurement. He has also authored over 25 books in the fi elds of

curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

About the Author

W. James Popham is a nationally recognized expert on educational testing. For 30 years he taught courses at UCLA in instructional methods for prospective teachers, and courses in evaluation and measurement. He has also authored over 25 books in the fields of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0132734869
• ISBN 13: 9780132734868
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 32