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Direct linkPopham, W. James – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
The tests we use to evaluate student achievement may well be sound measures of what students know, but they are faulty indicators at best of how well they have been taught. A remedy to this this situation of judging teachers by the performance of their students on high-stakes tests may be in hand already. We should look to the methods successfully…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Academic Achievement, Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Popham, W. James – Theory Into Practice, 2009
In recent years, increasing numbers of professional development programs have dealt with assessment literacy for teachers and/or administrators. Is assessment literacy merely a fashionable focus for today's professional developers or, in contrast, should it be regarded as a significant area of professional development interest for many years to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Accountability
Popham, W. James – Educational Leadership, 2006
Assessment for learning involves the frequent, continual use of both formal and informal classroom assessments. It can be as simple as requiring students to respond to a lesson-embedded, one-item quiz as a way of gauging student understanding of what is being taught. Ideally, this innovative approach to classroom assessment is based on a careful…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Accountability
Peer reviewedPopham, W. James – National Elementary Principal, 1973
As a method of helping teachers evaluate their own instructional performance on the basis of how that instruction affects learners, teaching performance tests may prove a useful ally to the elementary school principal. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Instruments, Performance Factors
Download full textPopham, W. James – 1971
The analysis is intended to provide California educators with a number of specific, step-by-step suggestions for devising the teacher appraisal systems required by new legislation in the Stull Bill. An overview of essential ingredients of the new requirements is given in the first part of this document in order to familiarize teachers with…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Evaluation, Systems Analysis
Popham, W. James – 1973
This book consists of six self-instructional programs to be completed individually by the reader. Topics of the programs are: current conceptions of educational evaluation; modern measurement methods; instructional supervision; a criterion-referenced strategy; constructing teaching performance tests; using teaching performance tests; and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
Popham, W. James – 1969
A project was undertaken to develop and validate a method of assessing teacher competence through the use of pupil performance tests. Teachers were given a list of specific, operationally defined objectives for a particular topic and directed to teach the objectives. Teacher competence was judged in relationship to the way their students performed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Behavioral Objectives
