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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910544386903321
• Autore: Tileston Donna Walker
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-4833-6026-1; 1-4833-6245-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Collana: What Every Teacher Should Know About
• Disciplina: 371.26
• Soggetti: Educational tests and measurements; Examinations; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""; ""Bloomâ€?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""