Publisher's Synopsis
The Role of Rubrics in Testing and Teaching booklet turns rubrics inside out and reveals them as an incredibly helpful tool in the effort to teach students of all ages in a variety of subjects and assess their learning, progress, and performance.
The MASTERING ASSESSMENT series is a set of fifteen practical, easy-to-use booklets covering a wide range of topics related to educational assessment and accountability. These groundbreaking booklets put the most relevant information on assessment at teachers' fingertips and provide an important resource for educators looking to learn the ins and outs of becoming "assessment literate." Paired with the series' Facilitator's Guide (available for download at no additional charge from Pearson's Instructor Resource Center), Mastering Assessment is the perfect tool for building assessment literacy either in self-study or a professional development program.
Don't miss all the books in the Mastering Assessment series by W. James Popham:
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
