Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know

Abstract

Jim Popham's widely popularClassroom Assessmentshows teachers how to use classroom testing skillfully and formatively to dramatically increase their teaching effectiveness and make a difference in how well students learn. As in past editions, the author pays particular attention to the instructional payoffs of well-designed classroom tests and highlights the implications of testing on teaching throughout in specialBut What Does This Have to Do with Teaching?sections in each chapter.Decision Timevignettes present practical classroom problems and show readers actual decisions being made.Parent Talkfeatures describe situations in which a teacher needs to explain something about assessment to parents and show what the author would say in that situation. And a lighter tone is established with cartoons to which readers can relate. The new Eighth Edition highlights the increasing importance of educational assessment in an era of common core state standards and teacher evaluations based on students' tests scores, incorporates theStandards for Educational and Psychologicaltesting guidelines throughout relevant sections, and includes a new section on instructionally diagnostic tests to help readers evaluate the merits of commercial or locally developed diagnostic assessment.