Appropriate and Inappropriate Tests for Evaluating Schools, Mastering Assessment: A Self-Service System for Educators, Pamphlet 1, 2nd Edition

MASTERING ASSESSMENT BOOKLETS

• 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 Emergence of Test-Based Accountability

            A Source of National Pride

            The Arrival of ESEA

            A Profession Sleeps

            What Can Be Done?

Two Types of Instructionally Insensitive Tests

            Traditionally Constructed Standardized Achievement Tests

            In Pursuit of Score-Spread

            Linking Items to Suitably Spread Variables

            Standards-Based Tests Built for a Particular State

Instructionally Sensitive Accountability Tests

            A Manageable Number of Extraordinarily Significant Curricular Aims

            Succinct, Teacher-Palatable Assessment Descriptions

            Reports for Each Curricular Aim for Individual Students

            Instructionally Meaningful Reports

A Continuum of Instructional Sensitivity