Testing: Friend or Foe?

Owing to daily work pressures and concerns, many teachers have little opportunity for considering and furthering their understanding of different issues surrounding assessment. Written in a user-friendly, jargon-free style, this text provides the reader with points of growth or change in the field of assessment. Each chapter in the text ends with a section on questions/exercises and further reading. Series Editors’ Preface 1 Introduction 2 History 3 Purposes 4 Confidence in Assessment—Reliability and Validity 5 What to Test—Norms, Criteria and Domains 6 How to Assess—Methods and Instruments 7 Teachers’ Roles in Assessment and Testing 8 Pupils and Assessment 19 Certification and Accountability 10 Conclusions