books by W. James Popham     books:       America's Failing Schools3 reviews W. James Popham Routledge, 2005 Are America's Schools Really Failing? W. James Popham has written the authoritative guide to understanding the controversial No Child Left Behind Act. He subtitles the book "How Parents and Teachers Can Cope With No Child Left Behind," but he goes beyond his mission by shining a sorely needed spotlight into the esoteric world of assessment in terms lay readers can grasp. In so doing, he explodes the myths surrounding the ...             Test Better, Teach Better: The Instructional Role of Assessment1 review W. James Popham Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2003 Enthusiastically recommended reading for classroom educators Test Better, Teach Better: The Instructional Role Of Assessment is an informative guideline by W. James Popham (Professor Emeritus, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies) to using test data to improve classroom instructor's ability to educate children and prepare them for the future. From the often-misused value of standardized achievement tests; to applying tests judiciously ...             Educational Evaluation (3rd Edition) W. James Popham Allyn & Bacon, 1992             The Truth About Testing: An Educator's Call to Action4 reviews W. James Popham Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2001 A "must" for any educator who needs to effectively evaluate Educator and author James Popham's The Truth About Testing takes a critical look at the standardized achievement tests used in America's schools today. The qualities that these tests really measure are not necessarily what the people who tout them claim, and their exaggerated importance in rating the school systems could have severe and destructive consequences on the future of the children who ...             Modern Educational Measurement: Practical Guidelines for Educational Leaders (3rd Edition)1 review W. James Popham Allyn & Bacon, 1999 Popham used a textbook Popham does an excellent job of providing both laymen and educators with appropriate insight into educational measurment. I just finished a graduate level course that used this book as one of its texts. It is an easy read that contains a wealth of information. I felt as if Popham was telling me a story in each chapter. He makes what can sometimes be a pretty bland subject into an ...             Understanding Statistics in Education1 review W. James Popham, Sirotnik F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1992 It's a miracle. I have taught statistics and research methods in two different depts of education, and over the years I have had the chance to review and try out many, many stat texts. No matter what text I've tried, I've seen students fumble, forget, and freak out as they slogged through the material. This book is the ONLY text I've ever used that ALL students found comprehensible and even, dare I say, ...             Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know (5th Edition)8 reviews W. James Popham Allyn & Bacon, 2007 If you want to see improvement in your student's progress you've gotta get this book!!!! Before reading this book, I was at a loss in my classroom as to how to use assessments to monitor progress, evaluate my instructional methods, and to be sure that students were mastering the content. Mr. Popham gives precise research based strategies to do ALL these things and MORE. Most books on assessment are dry and so dense you loathe having to read them but Mr. Popham exceeded my ...             Assessment for Educational Leaders1 review W. James Popham Allyn & Bacon, 2005 Practical Assessment Tools I am coordinator of secondary student teaching at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. I found this book to be very practical and informative for educators in terms of how to use assessment results. It provides examples and scenarios so that the reader can make practical use of what is being taught. William H. Blackburn, Ph.D.             Transformative Assessment W. James Popham ASCD, 2008             What Every Teacher Should Know About: Educational Assessment (What Every Teacher Should Know About) W. James Popham Allyn & Bacon, 2008 This handy guide covers the basics of authentic and standardized assessments.  It is a perfect guide to the basic information about assessment tools and their use in evaluation of students, teachers and schools.                How to Use PAP to Make AYP Under NCLB.(pain-avoidance principle)(adequate yearly progress)(No Child Left ... W. James Popham Thomson Gale, 2005 This digital document is an article from Phi Delta Kappan, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3146 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. 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