Educational assessment of students /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall,
[2007]
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| Edition: | 5th ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- The bases for assessment in the classroom
- Classroom decision making and using assessment
- Describing the goals and learning targets of instruction
- Validity of assessment results
- Reliability of assessment results
- Professional responsibilities, ethical behavior, and legal requirements in educational assessments
- Crafting and using classroom assessments
- Planning for integrating assessment and instruction
- Completion, short-answer, and true-false items
- Multiple-choice and matching exercises
- Essay assessment tasks
- Higher-order thinking, problem solving, and critical thinking
- Performance, portfolio, and authentic assessments : an overview
- How to craft performance tasks, projects, portfolios, rating scales, and scoring rubrics
- Formative evaluation using informal diagnostic assessments
- Preparing your students to be assessed and using students' results to improve your assessments
- Evaluating and grading student progress
- Interpreting and using standardized tests
- Standardized achievement tests
- Interpreting norm-referenced scores
- Finding and evaluating published assessments
- Scholastic aptitude, career interests, attitudes, and personality tests.