Educational assessment of students /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nitko, Anthony J.
Other Authors: Brookhart, Susan M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall, [2007]
Edition:5th ed.
Subjects:
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.