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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819596003321

Autore

Ronis Diane L.

Titolo

Brain-compatible assessments / / Diane Ronis ; foreword by Renate Nummela Caine ; cover designer, Rose Storey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4522-9727-4

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

371.26/4

Soggetti

Educational tests and measurements

Learning, Psychology of

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

""Front""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Publisher�s Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1. The Assessment Revolution""; ""The Need for Change""; ""The Standards""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #1: Creative Writing Journal""; ""Forms of Assessment""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #2: Planets in Motion""; ""Alternative Assessments""; ""A Starting Point""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #3: Campaign Scrapbook""; ""Chapter 2. Assessment Formats: Standards, Design, and Brain-Compatible Learning""; ""On the Lookout for Success""

""Performance Assessments""""Opportunity for Assessment #4: Westward Expansion Timeline""; ""The Performance Task""; ""Performance Criteria""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #5: Geography Mobiles""; ""Assessment Design""; ""Beyond the Answer Key""; ""Rubric Design""; ""Creating the Descriptor Levels""; ""Computing the Grade: Making Qualitative Assessments Quantitative""; ""Consistent Scoring and Reliability""; ""Content Counts""; ""Educational Inferences""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #6: Class Pet Diet Graph""; ""Chapter 3. Multiple Intelligences and Brain-Compatible Assessment""

""Learning and Intelligence""""Multiple Intelligence Theory""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #7: Fairy Tale Storyboard""; ""Motivation""; ""Beyond the Blackboard""; ""Message Confusion""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #8: Invitation to Invention""; ""Student



Strengths""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #9: Auto Economics""; ""Chapter 4. Instruction and Assessment""; ""The Pull of the Newtonian Paradigm""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #10: Stellated Dodecahedron""; ""Emotions in Context""; ""The Need for Standards""; ""Content Standards and Performance Standards""

""Teaching Methods and Instructional Materials""""No Child Left Behind""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #11: Cartoon Creation""; ""Promise for the Future""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #12: Television Time""; ""Chapter 5. Wiring the Curriculum: Standards and Their Technological Applications""; ""Interactive Learning""; ""Standards, Accountability, and Technology""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #13: Tessellation Transformation""; ""In Perspective""; ""Technology without Borders""; ""Software and Servers and Search Engines, Oh, My!""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #14: Multimedia Mapping""

""The Role of the Teacher""""Software Selection""; ""The Internet""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #15: Cyber Chronicles""; ""The Human Touch""; ""Chapter 6. Collaborative Learning""; ""The Benefits of Cooperation""; ""New Understandings""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #16: Kites for Everyone!""; ""The Spectrum of Interdependence""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #17: Photosynthesis Rap""; ""The Cooperative Learning Environment""; ""Conscious Attention""; ""Opportunity for Assessment #18: Checks and Balances Video""; ""Conclusion""; ""Glossary""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Teachers will learn to assess student achievement with rubrics that reflect the latest neuroscientific research and are compatible with standards and the principles of brain-compatible learning.