Classroom Assessment

Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, 9th Edition, is a textbook designed to help pre-service and in-service teachers use classroom testing accurately and formatively. The text balances practical assessment design with an ongoing focus on how testing decisions affect instruction and student learning.

The volume addresses fundamental principles such as validity, reliability, fairness, and deciding what to assess. It examines methods ranging from selected-response and constructed-response formats to performance and portfolio assessments, alongside strategies for refining teacher-developed tests.

To support parent communication and assessment literacy, the 2019 edition adds a Testing Takeaway feature and includes an updated Parent Talk feature to encourage productive dialogue about evaluation.