Full Description
Assessment is not only a measure of student learning, but a means to student learning. Teacher-Made Assessments, Third Edition, guides you in constructing and using your own classroom assessments, including tests, quizzes, essays, and performance-based assessments to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. You will learn how to weave together curriculum, instruction, and student learning to make assessment a more natural, useful part of teaching.
Find out how to:
ensure your assessments are valid, reliable, and fair;
construct assessments that meet the level of cognitive demand expected of students;
create selected-response items and understand technology-enhanced items now common in assessment;
use constructed-response items and develop scoring criteria such as rubrics;
develop performance assessments that align with more complex learning expectations; and,
analyze student results on assessments and use feedback more effectively with your students.
This substantively revised new edition addresses the benefits of instructionally sensitive assessment, the continuing evolution of technology-enhanced items, the integral contributions of teachers' practices to district-level assessment systems, strategies and examples of using generative AI to create assessments, and the important role of authentic performance-based assessments in teaching and learning in the twenty-first century.
Written with busy teachers and instructional leaders in mind, Teacher-Made Assessments is filled with clear ideas and loads of examples. No matter what grade level or subject area you teach, this practical, bestselling book will become your go-to resource for designing effective assessments.
Contents
Foreword (by Tom Guskey)
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Why Should I Assess Student Learning in My Classroom?
Chapter 2: What Makes a Good Assessment?
Chapter 3: How Do I Create a Good Assessment?
Chapter 4: How Do I Create Good Selected-Response Items?
Chapter 5: How Do I Create Good Constructed-Response Items?
Chapter 6: How Do I Create Authentic Assessments of Student Learning?
Chapter 7: How Can I Connect Assessment to Learning?
Chapter 8: How Can I Constructively Influence Professional Practice in My School?
Glossary
