Class is in session/Tests & Measurements book

First day of class here at Maranatha. I teach two classes this semester, Tests & Measurements and Instructional Media & Technology. Excellent group of students (from all appearances) and I am excited. My main goal this semester is to rewrite my notes and lectures in preparation for writing textbooks for both classes. That's pretty ambitious and I would expect that nothing concrete will be evident for a couple of years. However, the Christian college textbook is pretty wide-open. Many if not most of us here at Maranatha use secular textbooks and supplement them with our own material to integrate them with Bible principles. That's not an ideal situation.

My Tests & Measurements book will be called something like "Measurement, Assessment, Testing, and Evaluation for Christian School Teachers." Its audience will be broader than just college students in teacher education programs--I hope it will also be appealing for Christian School teachers and Christian College faculty. There are many teaching in Christian schools who had the old style, statistics-heavy tests & measurements classes, but not much about constructing valid, reliable tests and product/performance assessments. There are also many teaching in Christian Colleges who have never had any formal teacher training, and who desperately need a primer on writing good tests (at least that's what my Tests & Measurements students tell me).

So this is going to be my ongoing project for the next couple of years.