Classroom Assessment

by Airasian, Peter; Russell, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780073403762
• ISBN10: 0073403768
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-24
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applicationsviews classroom assessment as an everyday, ongoing part of teaching, integral to everything that happens in the classroom. The text is organized to follow the natural progression of teacher decision making, from organizing the class as a learning community to planning and conducting instruction to the formal evaluation of learning and, finally, to grading.Classroom Assessmentpresents complex concepts clearly so that pre-service teachers can understand them, and solidly grounds these concepts in best practice through practical, well-integrated examples. The text conceives of classroom assessment in a broader way than many other texts. It focuses not only on the assessment needs of testing, grading, interpreting standardized tests, and performance assessments but also on assessment concerns in organizing a classroom at the start of school, planning and implementing instruction, and strategies of teacher self reflection.

Author Biography

Michael Russell is Associate Professor of Education at Boston College's Lynch School of Education, where he Directs the Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Breadth of Classroom Assessment

Purposes of Assessment

Phases of Classroom Assessment

Assessment, Testing, Measuring, and Evaluations

Three General Ways to Collect Data

Student Products, Observation, and Oral Questioning

Standardized and Nonstandardized Assessments

Appopria

Appropriateents: Valid and Reliable Ethical

Issues and Responsibilities

Learning About Students

Early Assessment Gathering

Information about Students

Sources of Information about Students

Forming Student Descriptions

Concerns about Accuracy and Validity

Identifying Special Needs

Improving Early Assessments

Lesson Planning and Assessment Objectives

The Instructional Process

Instructional Planning

Three Levels of Teaching Objectives

Three Domains of Objectives

Stating and Constructing Objectives

Lesson Plans Textbook Objectives and Assessments

State Content Standards Improving the Tie between Planning and Assessment

Assessment During Instruction

Assessment Tasks during Instruction Validity and Reliability in Instructional

Assessment Improving

Assessment during Instruction

Questioning: Purposes and Strategies

Accommodations during Instruction

Summative Assessments

Formative and Summative Assessments

The Logic of Summative Assessments

Planning a Summative Assessment

Preparing Students for Official Assessments

Creating Achievement Tests

Selection and Supply Test

Items Higher-Level Questions

Guidelines for Writing and Critiquing Test Items

Improving Achievement Tests

Assembling Tests

Administering Tests

Issues of Cheating Scoring Paper-and-Pencil Tests

Analying Item Validity Discussing Test

Results wAnalyzingents Universal

Design and Test Accommodations

Performance Assessments

The General Role of Performance Assessments

Performance Assessment in Schools Developing

Performance Assessments

Anecdotal Records, Checklists, and Rating Scales

Rubrics Portfolios Validity and Reliability of Performance Assessments

Grading Rationale and Difficulties of Grading

Grading as Judgment Four Types of Comparison for Grading

Grading for Cooperative Learning and Students with Disabilities

Deciding What to Grade Summarizing Various Types of Assessment

Two Approaches to Assigning Grades

Other Methods of Reporting Student Progress

Commercial Standardized Achievement Tests

How Commercial Achievement Tests are Created

Administering the Test

Interpreting Scores Three Examples of Test

Interpretation The Validity of Commercial Achievement Tests

Computer-Based Technology and Classroom Assessment

Growth of Educational Technology

Computers and the Instructional Process

Computers are Toolboxes Computers and Assessment

During Instruction Computers and Summative

Assessment Classroom Assessment: Summing Up

Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students

Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Major Categories and Illustrative Objectives)

Sample Individual Education Plan

Statistical Applications for Classroom Assessment

Some Resources for Identifying Special Needs

Glossary

References

Name Index

Subject Index

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