This listing is for the loose-leaf version of this textbook, including a dark blue one-inch binder. Includes unopened card for accessing the e-text version, however, it is unclear if this is actively still available. This most recent revision of the text is fundamentally different than its seven predecessors, specifically in that its main focus is on formative assessments in the classroom. If you use each chapter’s mastery checks to decide how well you have attained the chapter’s chief intended outcome, you can then benefit by making your next activity an evident-informed choice rather than a data-free conjecture. Because this new edition represents an attempt to adopt, insofar as a textbook-only approach to formative assessment permits — it is anticipated that this modeling may incline at least a portion of its teacher-readers to employ some variation of formative assessment in their own classes.A number of features in this current edition, as might be expected, are inherited from previous renditions of the book. As in past editions, this new version is attentive to the instructional payoffs of well-designed classroom tests. The author strives to highlight the implications that testing has on teaching. All chapters contain a description of fictitious classroom teachers who must make decisions related to one or more of the topics treated in the chapter. Readers are asked to put themselves in the place of the teacher and decide how they would proceed. These vignettes are intended to set out a series of practical problems squarely on a reader’s plate, and then see how readers might much on them.Excellent resource for educators and for those entering this field of study.

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