Everything School Leaders Need to Know About Assessment

W. James Popham

Educational assessment in a nutshell for busy school leaders! In Popham’s own words, this book "is for the professional development of already toiling school leaders". A leading expert in educational assessment, Popham discusses the key principles that educational leaders need to know about educational assessment to do their work effectively. Readers will come away with crucial understandings that allow them to lead assessment of learning, meet accountability requirements, and communicate with various stakeholders. Using plain language, a witty writing style, and practical examples, Popham covers:

• Validity, reliability, and assessment bias
• The importance of formative assessment
• Assessing students with disabilities and English language learners
• Interpreting results of large-scale assessments
• Instructional sensitivity of accountability tests.

Popham is in the midst of writing another book for would-be school leaders in graduate or certificate programmes and he has also signed a contract to write an assessment textbook for in-training school administrators. Given his coverage of the field he wonders if his next assessment book should be aimed at prenatal school leaders!

Everything School Leaders Need to Know About Assessment is Published by Corwin Press, August 2010;
ISBN: 9781412979795

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