Full Description
For introductory courses in Classroom Assessment.Exceptionally accessible, this widely-used text focuses on helping readers become assessment literate and learn how to create and use classroom assessment to promote student learning.Classroom Assessment shows pre-service and in-service teachers how to use classroom testing accurately and formatively to dramatically increase their teaching effectiveness and make a difference in how well students learn. There are clear and concise guidelines on how to develop quality classroom assessments. The author also pays particular attention to the implications of testing on teaching. The new 8th Edition highlights the increasing importance of educational assessment in an era of common core state standards and teacher evaluations based on students' tests scores and incorporates the new Standards for Educational and Psychological testing guidelines throughout relevant sections.
Contents
1. Why Do Teachers Need to Know about Assessment? 2. Deciding What to Assess3. Reliability of Assessment 4. Validity5. Fairness6. Selected-Response Tests7. Constructed-Response Tests8. Performance Assessment9. Portfolio Assessment10. Affective Assessment11. Improving Teacher-Developed Assessments12. Formative Assessment13. Making Sense Out of Standardized Test Scores14. Appropriate and Inappropriate Test-Preparation Practices15. The Evaluation of Instruction16. Assessment-Based GradingNER(01): AU
