Foundations of Meaningful Educational Assessment

by Musial, Diann; Nieminen, Gayla; Thomas, Jay; Burke, Kay

• ISBN13: 9780073403823
• ISBN10: 0073403822
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-04
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Foundations of Meaningful Assessment is designed to provide a readable "how-to" approach to assessment and measurement within a classroom context. It presents assessment as a multi-dimensional, active process focused on student learning and instructional improvement and as a process that requires deliberate attention to those things that teachers are expected to do. The text focuses on assessment principles, concepts, and applications as they apply to teachers and learners within the contemporary classroom context. It enables teachers to select, develop, and refine formal and informal assessments that relate to the demands of standards-based education and to the diverse needs of every student. In summary, Foundations of Meaningful Educational Assessment views assessment as the art and science of placing students in a context that brings out their understanding and enables their teacher to record that understanding.

Table of Contents

The Nature of Assessment

The Psychological Foundations of Assessment

The Social Foundations of Assessment

Assessment: The Link between Standards and Learning

Selected Response Assessments

Constructed Response Assessments

Assessment Through Observation and Interview

Performance-Based Assessment

Portfolio Assessment and Rubric Development

Developing Grading Procedures

Statistical Applications to Classroom Assessment

Using Standardized Achievement Tests as Assessments

Assessment and the Law

Exceptionality and Assessment

Technology and Assessment

Reflective Self-assessment

Glossary

Appendices

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