Classroom assessment : what teachers need to know / W. James Popham, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why do teachers need to know about assessment? -- Deciding what to assess -- Reliability of assessment -- Validity -- Fairness -- Selected-response tests -- Constructed-response tests -- Performance assessment -- Portfolio assessment -- Affective assessment -- Improving teacher-developed assessments -- Formative assessment -- Making sense out of standardized test scores -- Appropriate and inappropriate test-preparation practices -- The evaluation of instruction -- Assessment-based grading.

"Teachers' bread-and-butter testing activities associated with classroom assessment--the activities not influenced by federal statutory shifts--remain relatively constant. And those main-line assessment decisions are the ones addressed in much of this oft-revised classroom assessment textbook--the one you'll soon read. A thorough review of the previous edition of the book has taken place for purposes of updating. For example, since the publication of the eighth edition of Classroom Assessment, we have seen a substantial increase in the use of computer-adaptive testing. This topic, its advantages, and its drawbacks are considered in the new edition. Similar updating has been applied throughout" -- Provided by publisher.