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Benefit from W. James Popham's approach to implementing formative assessment in all grades and subjects by turning formative assessment theory into everyday practice. Instead of focusing on checklists and data-gathering techniques, Popham explains how to take on what really matters most in the formative assessment process.

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What is assessment literacy? It's a handful of fundamental understandings about the testing concepts and procedures that influence educational decisions. And it just might be the most cost-effective means of real school improvement. With characteristic humor and aplomb, assessment expert W. James Popham strips away the psychometrician-speak and condenses the complexities of educational testing to six practical and action-oriented understanding...

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In "America's "Failing" Schools, " an expert on educational testing provides parents and teachers explanations of No Child Left Behind as a whole, walking them through the implications for standardized testing in particular, in language that is uncomplicated and straightforward.

Why is it", writes noted assessment expert W. James Popham, "that today's educators seem almost compelled to replicate their predecessors' blunders?" Looking back over a career of more than fifty years in education, Popham identifies six key "unlearned lessons" in education and reflects on their impact on schools, teachers, and students.

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Why is it", writes noted assessment expert W. James Popham, "that today's educators seem almost compelled to replicate their predecessors' blunders?" Looking back over a career of more than fifty years in education, Popham identifies six key "unlearned lessons" in education and reflects on their impact on schools, teachers, and students.

W. James Popham, one of the country's foremost experts in education measurement and evaluation, proposes a commonsense approach to teacher evaluation that utilizes the expertise and professional judgment of master teachers. In this groundbreaking book, Popham: Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of common evaluation systems such as testing, value-added models, and classroom observations Describes a teacher evaluation system based on colleg...

Help manage the increasing questions surrounding educational testing with Mastering Assessment, a set of fifteen practical, easy-to use booklets on teaching student evaluation. These groundbreaking booklets, written conversationally by leadingeducational assessment authority W. James Popham in his characteristic witty style, put the most relevant information onassessment at your fingertips. The light-hearted and accessible booklets provide an ...

With public and political demand for educational accountability never higher, educators are under enormous pressure to raise students' scores on standardized achievement tests. Policymakers are backing large-scale, high-stakes testing programs as the best way to determine which schools are failing and which schools are succeeding, and the only way to ensure the quality of students' schooling. Nonsense, says distinguished educator and author W....

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This text builds fundamental knowledge and helps to clarify a lot of the misunderstanding around testing in a conversational tone. It is framed around practical actions that can be taken to strengthen assessment literacy.

For a definitive guide to formative assessment???what it is, how it works, and why you want to use it in your school or classroom???look no further than this foundational book by a renowned expert. W. James Popham clarifies the unique ability of formative assessment to transform education into a more powerful and positive process. Get step-by-step guidance in how to use formative assessments to improve teaching, learning, classroom climate, te...

W. James Popham, one of the most well-known and respected experts in educational assessment, discusses the key principles new and seasoned school leaders need to know about educational assessment to do their work effectively. Readers will come away with crucial understandings that allow them to lead assessment of learning, meet accountability requirements, and communicate knowledgeably about accountability and test results with students, par...

If you're frustrated by standardized tests that don't give you the information you need to help students achieve in the classroom, then here's a book that explains how to create and use tests to guide everyday teaching practices. A renowned expert on assessment provides you with a "crash course" on the basic principles of testing: How tests can tell you what to teach and how to teach it. What to put on a test and why, including the rules for c...