Mastering assessment : a self-service system for educators / W. James Popham.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

"The term "assessment literacy" is increasingly being used in education as teachers are required to know more and more about assessment and accountability. Most of today's public educators, however, were never required as part of their pre-service training to learn the ins and outs of this complicated subject matter. For in service teachers, assessment literacy is hardly weekend reading! And most traditional textbooks were written for graduate students aspiring to be specialist in measurement and assessment.Enter Mastering Assessment--a packaged set of booklets about a wide range of topics related to educational assessment. Written by noted assessment W. James Popham in his characteristic witty style, these short books put the most relevant information on assessment at teachers' fingertips. Reading through a booklet on reducing assessment bias, how to build constructed response tests, or scoring rubrics will provide teachers a quick, engaging means of becoming "assessment literate.""--Publisher description.