Full Description
For a wide variety of courses in classroom assessment. This highly respected text offers the most comprehensive discussion of traditional and alternative assessments of any classroom assessment text-explaining, giving examples, discussing pros and cons, and showing how to construct virtually all of the traditional and alternative assessments teachers use in the classroom. The author explores assessment theories and research findings as they affect teaching and learning, and examines why, when, and how teachers should use assessment in the classroom. To the text's hundreds of practical examples are added checklists to aid in evaluating assessment vehicles and scores of strategies for assessing higher-order thinking, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Contents
Brief Contents
Part I
The Bases for Assessment
1 Classroom Decision Making and Using Assessment
2 Describing the Goals and Learning Targets of Instruction
3 Validity of Assessment Results
4 Reliability of Assessment Results
5Professional Responsibilities, Ethical Behavior, and Legal Requirements in Educational Assessments
Part II
Crafting and Using Classroom Assessments
6 Planning for Integrating Assessment and Instruction
7 Diagnostic and Formative Assessments
8 Completion, Short-Answer, and True-False Items
9 Multiple-Choice and Matching Exercises
10 Essay Assessment Tasks
11 Higher-Order Thinking, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking
12 Performance and Portfolio Assessments
13 Preparing Your Students to Be Assessed and Using Students' Results to Improve Your Assessments
14 Evaluating and Grading Student Progress
Part III
Interpreting and Using Standardized Tests
15 Standardized Achievement Tests
16 Interpreting Norm-Referenced Scores
17 Finding and Evaluating Published Assessments
18 Scholastic Aptitude, Career Interests, Attitudes, and Personality Tests
Appendixes
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index
