Educational Assessment of Students (5th Edition)

I object to authors who write to impress their peers rather than write to explain their topic areas in such a way so that a student coming from another field can begin to understand what is going on fairly soon after reading the textbook, or parts of the textbook. I really do not care if the audience the authors/author are trying to reach are college students or graduate students, if the writing is such that the material does not make sense without total explanations from the teacher, then something is wrong. Most of the fifty some odd people in both classes who I talked to about it agreed that both the book and the classes were boring, unstimulating, and that they were having a difficult time comprehending the material presented. Since most of these people were and are teachers or those who work in educational research, it obviously wasn't me or them. I think the idea is supposed to be to make curricula accessible to all students. Since I am a Deaf person, and have had my fill of professors who definitely did not try to make their classes accessible, I tend to hold the writers of textbooks up to a high standard. None of the students in the class were 'learning-disabled' but this book did an awfully good job of making feel as if we were. All of us tried to sell this book back rather than keep it in our shelves which at a graduate level is unusual, but because they are bring a new edition out the books were unresaleable. I am looking for a more coherent text for my own personal use on education assessment...it won't be this one. Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh