Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know - Softcover

Sixth Edition

Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know

W. James Popham

Long the market-leading text, Classroom Assessment, 6th Edition, continues to offer the same traits that have been its hallmark for decades:

• a practical approach rich with real classroom strategies and
• applications
• an authoritative, research-based overview of classroom assessment by one of the leaders in the field, W. James Popham
• an authorial voice that is truly both clear and engaging that pre-service teachers will enjoy.

In addition to covering expertly the field of classroom assessment, this text continues to give students ample opportunities, in the “Decision Time” activities, to evaluate realistic classroom scenarios and to make informed decisions about testing and assessment based on what they've learned in each chapter.  It also retains the highly regarded feature, “Parent Talk," so new teachers can learn effective ways to communicate with parents about their children's grades and educational progress. Further, this edition contains important new information and coverage:

• Chapter 12 introduces a new formative assessment procedure that can improve classroom teachers' instructional effectiveness.
• Chapters 15 and 16 now divide the subject of grading to cover separately and in detail ways in which teachers can evaluate their own teaching and its impact on student progress and grades and how to grade students fairly and usefully.
• "Extended Applications" appear at the end of the book and provide rich cases where students can apply what they've learned to authentic educational situations.

We feel this well-known bestseller is better, more up to date, and more useful to teachers than ever.