Professional Book Reviews: The Value of Teacher Expertise and Good Judgment: Recent Inspiring Reading about Assessment

In this article readers will find the account of a fourth-grade teacher overwhelmed with constant, mandated testing who turns to professional literature to learn more about formative assessments that will help her students learn. She reviews W. James Popham’s Transformative Assessment, Sherry Mee Bell and R. Steve McCallum’s Handbook of Reading Assessment, and Classroom Assessment Grading That Work by Robert J. Marzano.