ABSTRACT
This part is divided into four sections. Section I includes four chapters that will introduce you to basic measurement principles. Chapter 1 will introduce you to the various roles that measurement plays in the classroom, to basic terminology, to the difference between formal and informal assessment, to the ways in which you can use assessment in the classroom, and finally to the difference between maximum performance and typical performance measures. Chapter 2 will introduce you to various approaches that you can use to interpret test scores, how to choose a particular approach, and finally to the desired characteristics of both criterion-referenced and norm-referenced tests. Chapter 3 will introduce you to the use of standards, goals, and objectives as an approach to decide what to teach and what to assess. You will learn about several approaches to how to prepare objectives and how to use them in the classroom. In Chapter 4 you will learn about reliability, both from a theoretical perspective and a practical classroom perspective. In addition, you will learn how to interpret reliabilities and how to make your classroom assessment techniques more reliable. Finally, in Chapter 5 you will be introduced to validity, how you can go about obtaining evidence of validity, and how reliability and validity are related to one another.
