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Create, Apply, Synthesize – what do these three words have in common? If you guessed they are all Level 4 verbs on the Webb’s Depth…
For the sixth time in my career I find myself at the Jostens Renaissance national conference. This year we are in sunny Scottsdale, AZ and…
Ok, so Popham gives us in this chapter the beginnings to building our own test items. But he does so with a few, actually five,…
Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Test Better, Teach Better’ Chapter 5: An Introduction to Test Building
Chapter 4 of Popham’s book brings to light a few things that I doubt many of us consider when writing our own tests, giving a…
Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Test Better, Teach Better’ Chapter 4: Validity, Reliability, and Bias
Too many testing targets…that is what the author has titled this chapter. In reality, this chapter focused on educational standards and the difficulties teaching and…
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I am struck immediately by the analogy the author uses to connect curriculum and instruction. Identifying curriculum as the end and instruction as the means…
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So having read the first chapter of Popham’s Test Better, Teach Better, I like the direction the book is taking in looking at assessment from…
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Good morning, students and staff. I want to take a little of your time today to share information regarding the rumors of potential acts of…
Across from my desk in my office I have a bookshelf loaded with all the same ‘best practice’ books owned by nearly all administrators. Each…
This summer I was reading a post by Bill Ferriter (@plugusin) on his blog The Tempered Radical. His three part series on flipping the classroom…