<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Different curricular aims call for different assessment strategies, as this booklet, <I>Portfolio Assessment and Performance Testing</I>, readily explains. Read on for step-by-step guidance about how to create these two types of essential assessment tools, as well as a frank discussion of the pros and cons of each.  </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The <I>Mastering Assessment </I>series is a set of fifteen practical, easy-to-use booklets covering a wide range of topics related to educational assessment and accountability. These groundbreaking booklets put the most relevant information on assessment at teachers' fingertips and provide an important resource for educators looking to learn the ins and outs of becoming “assessment literate.” Paired with the series' <I>F</I><I>acilitator's Guide </I>(available for download at no additional charge from Pearson's ), <I>Mastering Assessment </I>is the perfect tool for building assessment literacy either in self-study or a professional development program.  </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <DIV sercontent><B> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Don't miss all the books in the <I>Mastering Assessment </I>Series by W. James Popham:</B> <B></P> <DIV sercontent> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"></B></P></DIV> <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>