Test Better, Teach Better: The Instructional Role of Assessment

Table of contents

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• Title Page ii
• Test Better, Teach Better - The Instructional Role of Assessment iv
• Preface v
• 1: The Links Between Testing and Teaching 1
• 2: How Tests Can Clarify the Curriculum 16
• 3: Too Many Testing Targets 29
• 4: Validity, Reliability, and Bias 42
• 5: An Introduction to Test Building 60
• 6: Selected-Response Items 72
• 7: Constructed-Response Items 86
• 8: The Value of Affective Assessment 106
• 9: Uses and Misuses of Standardized Achievement Tests 122
• 10: Instructionally Supportive Standards-Based Tests 139
• 11: Collecting Credible Classroom Evidence of Instructional Impact 149
• Epilogue: Cora in Her Classroom 160
• Index 170

• Title Page ii
• Test Better, Teach Better - The Instructional Role of Assessment iv
• Preface v
• 1: The Links Between Testing and Teaching 1
• 2: How Tests Can Clarify the Curriculum 16
• 3: Too Many Testing Targets 29
• 4: Validity, Reliability, and Bias 42
• 5: An Introduction to Test Building 60
• 6: Selected-Response Items 72
• 7: Constructed-Response Items 86
• 8: The Value of Affective Assessment 106
• 9: Uses and Misuses of Standardized Achievement Tests 122
• 10: Instructionally Supportive Standards-Based Tests 139
• 11: Collecting Credible Classroom Evidence of Instructional Impact 149
• Epilogue: Cora in Her Classroom 160
• Index 170
• About the Author 174