A Popham Primer

W. James Popham, former test developer and outspoken critic of poorly designed or misused tests, kicks off the 2005 Conference on Teaching & Learning in San Francisco.

Before you hear his Opening General Session presentation, check out his past contributions to the ASCD canon.

Books

• Teach Better, Test Better (2003)
  
• The Truth About Testing (2001)

Educational Leadership articles from the All About Accountability series . . .

• Can Growth Ever Be Beside the Point? (November 2005)
• The Age of Compliance (October 2005)
• AYP Wriggle Room Running Out (September 2005)
• NAEP: Gold Standard or Fool's Gold? (May 2005)
  
• Squandered Instructional Zeal (April 2005)
  
• Instructional Quality: Collecting Credible Evidence (March 2005)
  
• Students' Attitudes Count (February 2005)
  
• Swords with Blunt Edges (December 2004/January 2005)
  
• “Teaching to the Test”: An Expression to Eliminate (November 2004)
  
• Tawdry Tests and AYP (October 2004)
  
• Why Assessment Illiteracy Is Professional Suicide (September 2004)

More Educational Leadership articles . . .

• The Seductive Allure of Data (February 2003), requires member log in
  
• A Nation at Risk Really Ought to Take a Few (December 2002/January 2003), requires member log in
  
• Teaching to the Test? (March 2001)
  
• Why Standardized Tests Don’t Measure Educational Quality (March 1999)
  
• What’s Wrong--and What’s Right--with Rubrics (October 1997)