Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, 10th edition

Published by Pearson (June 28, 2024) © 2025

  • W James Popham Emeritus, University of California - Los Angeles
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Classroom Assessment shows pre- and in-service teachers how to use classroom testing accurately and formatively to dramatically increase your teaching effectiveness and promote student learning. In addition to clear and concise guidelines on how to develop and use quality classroom assessments, the author also focuses on the teaching implications of testing and the instructional payoffs of well-designed tests. Real-world case studies and examples of reliability, validity and fairness demonstrate how crucial test-appraisal criterion is used in a variety of instructional settings. Coverage of current guidelines, laws, policy changes, standards and methods keep you up to date on current best practices and requirements.

The 10th Edition includes extensive discussion of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing and their impact on classroom assessment, new technology content, and more.

  1. Why Do Teachers Need to Know About Assessment?
  2. Deciding What to Assess
  3. Reliability of Assessment
  4. Validity
  5. Fairness
  6. Selected-Response Tests
  7. Constructed-Response Tests
  8. Performance Assessment
  9. Portfolio Assessment
  10. Affective Assessment
  11. Improving Teacher-Developed Assessments
  12. Formative Assessment
  13. Making Sense Out of Standardized Test Scores
  14. Appropriate and Inappropriate Test-Preparation Practices
  15. The Evaluation of Instruction
  16. Assessment-Based Grading

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