Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, 10th edition
Published by Pearson (May 2, 2024) © 2025
W James Popham

Key features

Features of Pearson+ eTextbook for the 10th Edition

  • Podcasts showcase real events related to the key concepts in each of the 16 chapters in the book. These stories illustrate the real-life consequences and power of assessment done well and done poorly.
  • The Interactive Glossary lets students quickly build their professional vocabulary as they read.

Table of contents

  1. Why Do Teachers Need to Know About Assessment?
  2. Deciding What to Assess
  3. Reliability of Assessment
  4. Validity
  5. Fairness
  6. Selected-Response Tests
  7. Constructed-Response Tests
  8. Performance Assessment
  9. Portfolio Assessment
  10. Affective Assessment
  11. Improving Teacher-Developed Assessments
  12. Formative Assessment
  13. Making Sense Out of Standardized Test Scores
  14. Appropriate and Inappropriate Test-Preparation Practices
  15. The Evaluation of Instruction
  16. Assessment-Based Grading
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