Assessment Literacy for Educators in a Hurry

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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 understandings about validity, reliability, fairness, score reporting, formative assessment, and affective assessment.

This book is for busy educators at the classroom and leadership levels who want

• Tests that are worth the valuable time they take to administer.
• Tests that accurately measure what student have learned.
• Tests that fairly reflect teacher and school effectiveness.
• Tests that provide the instructionally useful data that will help students learn faster and better.

Assessment Literacy for Educators in a Hurry is the fastest route to acquiring the measurement moxie necessary to understand and advocate for better assessment practices and build a case for stopping ineffective and harmful ones. In just a few hours' time, you can pick up the knowledge you need to do a whole lot of good—for your students, yourself, and our schools.

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