Recommended Reading on Testing, Assessment, Statistics

• Berger. Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools Through Student-Engaged Assessment, Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2014.
• Bernhardt. Using Data to Improve Student Learning in Elementary Schools, Eye on Education, 2003.
• Blythe, et. al. Looking Together at Student Work: A Companion Guide to Assessing Student Learning, Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1999.
• Calkins, Montgomery, & Santman.  A Teacher’s Guide to Standardized Reading Tests: Knowledge is Power, Heinemann, 1998.
• Fisher.  Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom, ASCD, 2007.
• Frey & Fisher.  The Formative Assessment Action Plan: Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning, ASCD, 2011.
• Herman, et. al.  A Practical Guide to Alternative Assessment, ASCD, 1992.
• Landrigan. Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Reader Behind the Numbers, Stenhouse, 2013.
• Lawrence-Lightfoot & Davis.  The Art and Science of Portraiture, Jossey-Bass, 1997.
• Lemann.  The Big Test:  The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
• Lewin.  Great Performances: Creating Classroom-Based Assessment Tasks, ASCD, 1998.
• Moss.  Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom: A Guide for Instructional Leaders, ASCD, 2009.
• Orfield & Kornhaber.  Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?  Inequality and High-Stakes Testing in Public Education, Century Foundation Press, 2001.
• Popham.  Transformative Assessment, ASCD, 2008.
• Popham.  The Truth about Testing:  An Educator’s Call to Action, ASCD, 2001.
• Ravitch. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, Basic Books, 2010
• Wiliam.  Embedded Formative Assessment, Solution Tree, 2011. (3 copies)
• Wiliam.  Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for K-12 Classrooms, Solution Tree, 2015.