Assessment and Grading in Classrooms

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2019-12-19
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary

Assessment and Grading in Classroomsis particularly geared to the needs of classroom teachers, emphasizing sound approaches to gathering both formative and summative information about student achievement of classroom learning targets, interpreting standardized tests for classroom purposes, and using information from multiple sources to help students learn. Classroom examples and stories breathe life into the concepts presented in the text.

Table of Contents

Classroom Decision Making
Validity and Reliability
Learning Goals
Higher-Order Thinking
Planning Assessment and Instruction
Formative Assessment
Completion and Selected Response Test Items
Constructed Response Items
Performance Assessment
Scoring: Points, Rubrics, and Other Scales
Grading
Interpreting Standardized Test Scores
Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students
Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education Revised
Code of Professional Responsibilities in Educational Measurement
Summaries of Taxonomies of Educational Objectives: Cognitive, Affective, & Psychomotor Domains
Categories of Learning Targets Derived from the Dimensions of Learning Model
Examples of Alternative Blueprints for a Summative Unit Assessment
Scoring Guide for Nebraska's 8 th Grade Writing Rubrics for Descriptive Writing
Key Elements of Good Answers to Exercises
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index
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