What every teacher should know about student assessment / Donna Walker Tileston ; acquisitions editor Faye Zucker ; copy editor Stacey Shimizu ; cover designer Tracy E. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tileston, Donna Walker, author.

Contributor:

Zucker, Faye, editor.

Shimizu, Stacey, editor.

Miller, Tracy, cover designer.

Series:

Tileston, Donna Walker. What every teacher should know about--

What Every Teacher Should Know About

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational tests and measurements.

Examinations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gain a solid foundation for understanding the implications of standards-based instruction in the classroom and sharpen your skill in enhancing student understanding.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Vocabulary Pre-Test""; ""Chapter 1 - Making Decisions About Assessment""; ""Examining Declarative and Procedural Information""; ""Building Brain-Compatible Assessments""; ""Alignment and Standards""; ""Chapter 2 - Identifying and Enhancing Student Understanding""; ""Traditional Ideas on Checking for Understanding""; ""How Do We Know That Students Know?""; ""Using Brain Research to Enhance Retrieval""; ""Text Anxiety and the Brain""; ""Chapter 3 - Formats for Teacher-Made Tests""

""Forced-Choice Questions""""Essays""; ""Oral Reports""; ""Performance Tasks""; ""Teacher Observation""; ""Student Self-Assessment""; ""Chapter 4 - Testing for Intelligence""; ""Types of Intelligence""; ""Using the Intelligences to Enhance Classroom Activities""; ""Chapter 5 - Performance Tasks""; ""Portfolios""; ""Teacher Observation""; ""Student Self-Assessment""; ""Independent or Group Projects""; ""Bloom�s Taxonomy""; ""Applying the Formula""; ""Chapter 6 - Using a Matrix or Rubric""; ""Using a Matrix to Describe the Desired Results""; ""Using and Building Rubrics""

""Chapter 7 - Building Aligned Assessments""""Step One: Choosing Classroom Goals""; ""Step Two: Writing the Objectives""; ""Step Three: Monitoring Student Understanding""; ""Step Four: Creating a Rubric""; ""Step Five: Preparing Assessment Tools""; ""Step Six: Assessing the Assessment""; ""Some Final thoughts""; ""Chapter 8 - State and National Assessments""; ""How can We Raise Test Scores Now?""; ""The Silver Bullet""; ""Vocabulary Summary""; ""Vocabulary Post-Test""; ""References""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781483360263

1483360261

9781483362458

1483362450

OCLC:

923707233