Selected-Response Tests: Building and Bettering, Mastering Assessment: A Self-Service System for Educators, Pamphlet 12, 2nd Edition

By W. James Popham

ISBN-10: 0-13-273495-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-273495-0What's this?

Published by Pearson

Published: Jun 2, 2011

Format: Paper

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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

Table of Contents

Payoffs and Perils of Selected-Response Items

            Efficiency and Coverage

            Overbooking on Memory-Focused Items

Rules for Item Generation

            General Test-Development Commandments

            Binary Choice Items

            Matching Items

            Multiple Choice Items

Improving Selected-Response Items

            Judgmental-Based Improvements

            Empirically-Based Improvements