<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I>Mastering Assessment: A Self-Service System for Educators, 2/e  </I>(hereafter referred to as MA) is a set of 15 booklets intended to be the grist for a wide variety of professional development programs focused on educational assessment.  Each of the MA booklets was deliberately written to permit a one- sitting or two- sittings reading by busy educators. The resultant brevity of the MA booklets, coupled with their being provided as separate documents, is intended to provide users of the MA system with considerable latitude in determining how best to use the booklets. A Facilitator's Guide is available to guide educators in using the 15 booklets in their professional development programs and can be downloaded at no additional charge from Pearson's .</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B><B><I>Mastering Assessment </I>boxset </B>incudes:</P> <DIV sercontent> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"></B>• Appropriate and Inappropriate Tests for Evaluating Schools</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Assessing Students' Affect</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Assessing Students with Disabilities</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Assessment Bias: How to Banish It</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Classroom Evidence of Successful Teaching</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• College Entrance Examinations: The SAT and the ACT</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Constructed-Response Tests: Building and Bettering</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• How Testing Can Help Teaching</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Interpreting the Results of Large-Scale Assessments</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Portfolio Assessment and Performance Testing</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Reliability: What Is It and Is It Necessary?</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Selected-Response Tests: Building and Bettering</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• The Role of Rubrics in Testing <I>and </I>Teaching</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">• Test Preparation: Sensible or Sordid?</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">• Validity: Assessment's Cornerstone</P></DIV>