How to design questions and tasks to assess student thinking /

This book provides specific guidelines to help educators design targeted questions and tasks that align with new academic standards and assess students' ability to think at higher levels.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brookhart, Susan M.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Alexandria, Virginia : ASCD, [2014]
Subjects:	Educational tests and measurements > United States. Educational evaluation > United States. Thought and thinking > Study and teaching > United States. Critical thinking > Study and teaching > United States. EDUCATION > Administration > General. EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Assessing higher-order thinking : five Ws and an H
2. Assessment questions and tasks as "problems to solve"
3. The assessment toolkit
4. Multiple-choice questions that assess higher-order thinking
5. Open-ended questions
6. Performance assessment tasks : the basics
7. Performance assessment tasks : varying the amount of structure
8. Performance assessment tasks : controlling cognitive level and difficulty
9. An idea bank of performance assessment tasks
10. Managing assessment of higher-order thinking.