What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Assessment.

Gain a solid foundation for understanding the implications of standards-based instruction in the classroom and sharpen your skill in enhancing student understanding.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tileston, Donna E. Walker
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2003.
Subjects:	Educational tests and measurements. Examinations. examinations (documents) Educational tests and measurements Examinations
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover
Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Vocabulary Pre-Test
Chapter 1
Making Decisions About Assessment
Examining Declarative and Procedural Information
Building Brain-Compatible Assessments
Alignment and Standards
Chapter 2
Identifying and Enhancing Student Understanding
Traditional Ideas on Checking for Understanding
How Do We Know That Students Know?
Using Brain Research to Enhance Retrieval
Text Anxiety and the Brain
Chapter 3
Formats for Teacher-Made Tests
Forced-Choice Questions
Essays
Oral Reports
Performance Tasks
Teacher Observation
Student Self-Assessment
Chapter 4
Testing for Intelligence
Types of Intelligence
Using the Intelligences to Enhance Classroom Activities
Chapter 5
Performance Tasks
Portfolios
Teacher Observation
Student Self-Assessment
Independent or Group Projects
Bloom's Taxonomy
Applying the Formula
Chapter 6
Using a Matrix or Rubric
Using a Matrix to Describe the Desired Results
Using and Building Rubrics
Chapter 7
Building Aligned Assessments
Step One: Choosing Classroom Goals
Step Two: Writing the Objectives
Step Three: Monitoring Student Understanding
Step Four: Creating a Rubric
Step Five: Preparing Assessment Tools
Step Six: Assessing the Assessment
Some Final thoughts
Chapter 8
State and National Assessments
How can We Raise Test Scores Now?
The Silver Bullet
Vocabulary Summary
Vocabulary Post-Test
References
Index.

What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Assessment.

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