Tag: Classroom Assessment
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A Balanced Assessment System
Read MoreCreating, Implementing, and Sustaining Effective Assessment Practices As a society, we’ve shifted the thinking about schools from places where it’s OK for some students to succeed and some to fail to places where the expectation is for all students to succeed. With this shift, the role of assessment has changed from separating successful and unsuccessful students to […]
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Reliability Concerns for Classroom Formative Assessment
Read MoreThis week, I started teaching a course called Assessment: Theory and Practice to graduate students in the Leadership program at Saint Mary’s University. More than 70% of the students in the class are K-12 teachers. In a course like this, reliability and validity are of course big topics. In fact, next week’s class (5 hours […]
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The Achievement Gap: Part 2
Read MorePart 2 in the series on the Achievement Gap by guest blogger Takeshi Terada (tera0026@umn.edu). In Part 1 of this series on the Achievement Gap, I described how closing the achievement gap may not necessarily mean that children’s academic performances are getting closer to each other. This is because the achievement gap is defined and […]
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Reliability Concerns for Classroom Summative Assessment
Read MoreAs Jim Popham has so eloquently stated, “Validity and reliability are the meat and potatoes of the measurement game” (Popham, 2006, p. 100). They are what every psychometrician AND teacher need to know and understand. When psychometricians build large scale tests for state departments of education, there’s a list of validity and reliability concerns that they […]