Educational Assessment of Students

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. Cover Table of Contents Glossary 1. Classroom Decision Making and Using Assessment 2. Describing the Goals and Learning Targets of Instruction 3. Planning for Integrating Assessment and Instruction 4. Diagnostic and Formative Assessments 5. Completion, Short-Answer, and True-False Items 6. Multiple-Choice and Matching Exercises 7. Essay Assessment Tasks 8. Higher-Order Thinking, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking 9. Performance and Portfolio Assessments 10. Preparing Your Students to Be Assessed and Using Students' Results to Improve Your Assessments 11. Evaluating and Grading Student Progress 12. Standardized Achievement Tests 13. Interpreting Norm-Referenced Scores 14. Finding and Evaluating Published Assessments 15. Scholastic Aptitude, Career Interests, Attitudes, and Personality Tests Appendix: Educational Assessment Knowledge and Skills for Teachers Appendix: Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education (Revised) Appendix: Code of Professional Responsibilities in Educational Measurement Appendix: Summaries of Taxonomies of Educational Objectives: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor Domains Appendix: Implementing the Principles of Universal Design via Technology-Based Testing Appendix: Assessment of Metacognition Appendix: Examples of Alternative Blueprints for a Summative Unit Assessment Appendix: Scoring Guide for Oregon's Writing Assessment Appendix: Basic Statistical Concepts Appendix: Computational Procedures for Various Reliability Coefficients Appendix: A Limited List of Published Tests Appendix: List of Test Publishers and Their Websites Appendix: Answers to Even-Numbered Exercises References Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z