Classroom Assessment in Action

✍ Scribed by Mark Shermis, Francis J. Di Vesta

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 559
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Classroom Assessment in Action clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then provide clear and ordered discussions of how assessment and instruction is integrated into a functional process to enhance student learning. Guidelines are set forth for constructing various common assessments. Procedures are laid out to evaluate and improve assessments once they are constructed. And, ultimately, the authors shed light on the myriad of factors that impact test score interpretation. In today's classroom, technology has become a constant companion, and Classroom Assessment in Action exposes teacher candidates to emerging technologies they might encounter in building their repertoire of assessments, whether it be automated essay scoring or electronic portfolios. Classroom Assessment in Action guides its readers to a complete and thorough understanding of assessment and measurement so that they can confidently work with students and parents in explaining results, whether they are from a high-stakes statewide assessment or the grading philosophy to which they ascribe.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
A Note to the Reader: Theory to Practice......Page 14
CHAPTER 1. Orientation to Assessment......Page 16
CHAPTER 2. Planning Assessments......Page 42
CHAPTER 3. Observation: Bases of Assessment......Page 70
CHAPTER 4. Formative Assessment: Using Assessment for Improving Instruction......Page 98
CHAPTER 5. Performance Assessment......Page 134
CHAPTER 6. Developing Objective Tests......Page 168
CHAPTER 7. Developing Subjective Tests......Page 200
CHAPTER 8. Selecting Standardized Tests......Page 224
CHAPTER 9. Technology in Assessment......Page 252
CHAPTER 10. Improving Tests......Page 288
CHAPTER 11. Domain-Specific Assessment and Learning......Page 320
CHAPTER 12. Grading......Page 362
CHAPTER 13. Supplementary Assessments of Individual Differences......Page 386
CHAPTER 14. High-Stakes Testing: Policy and Accountability......Page 434
CHAPTER 15. Assessment and Best Practices......Page 472
CHAPTER 16. Test Bias, Fairness, and Testing Accommodations......Page 498
Index......Page 538
About the Authors......Page 558

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