Developing performance-based assessments : grades 6-12 / / Nancy P. Gallavan

• Autore: Gallavan Nancy P.
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.27
• Soggetto topico: Educational tests and measurements - United States; Competency-based educational tests - United States; Middle school students - Rating of - United States; High school students - Rating of - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 - Examining the Many Purposes of Assessment""; ""Demystify Performance-Based Assessments""; ""Understand the Six Components of Assessment""; ""Picture the Continuous Flow of Assessment""; ""Know the Reasons for Selecting Your Assessments . . .""; ""Extend with Questions and Activities""; ""Chapter 2 - Planning Assessments to Promote Understanding""; ""Use Formal and Informal Assessments""; ""Become a Data-Driven Teacher""; ""Understand Assessment Principles and Practices"" ; ""Watch for Common Errors in Assessing""""Visualize the Overall Process . . .""; ""Extend with Questions and Activities""; ""Chapter 3 - Collecting Baseline Data for Preassessments""; ""Set Three Goals to Guide Your Preassessments""; ""Question Each of the Six Components of Assessment""; ""Keep Anecdotal Records""; ""Follow These Guidelines as You Preassess""; ""Realize That Assessment is a Continuous Process . . .""; ""Extend with Questions and Activities""; ""Chapter 4 - Aligning Appropriate Formative Assessments""; ""Consider the Six Components of Assessment""; ""Design Your Curriculum"" ; ""Align Assessments with Curriculum and Instruction""""Explore Cognition via Patterns of Thought""; ""Plan with Competence and Confidence . . .""; ""Extend with Questions and Activities""; ""Chapter 5 - Incorporating Learning, Assigning Instruction Followed by Feedback and Correction""; ""Assign Your Instruction and Activities""; ""Employ Multiple Instructional Strategies""; ""Consider These Assessment Recommendations""; ""Include All Kinds of Questions with Your Formative Assessments""; ""Optimize the Feedback""; ""Involve Your Learners in the Process"" ; ""Have Fun with Formative Assessments . . .""""Extend with Questions and Activities""; ""Chapter 6 - Administering Summative Assessments""; ""Connect to the Goals and Components of Assessment""; ""Create Your Summative Assessments""; ""Prepare Learners for Summative Assessments""; ""Set Your Sights on the Five As""; ""Continue the Assessment Cycle . . .""; ""Extend with Questions and Activities""; ""Chapter 7 - Identifying What to Assess: Inviting the Five Types of Inquiry and Information""; ""Introduce the Five Types of Inquiry""; ""Balance Three Conditions with Five Types of Inquiry"" ; ""Delve Into Responses""""Enhance Variety in Your Inquiries""; ""Include All Types of Thinking, Acting, and Feeling . . .""; ""Extend with Questions and Activities""; ""Chapter 8 - Analyzing How to Assess: Applying the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication""; ""Analyze the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication""; ""Implement Assessments Purposefully""; ""Develop Appraisals to Showcase Learning . . .""; ""Extend with Questions and Activities""; ""Chapter 9 - Creating Assessment Templates and Rubrics""; ""Construct the Assessment Template""; ""Build Rubrics"" ; ""Let Your Templates and Rubrics Do the Work for You . . .""
• Sommario/riassunto: This book guides educators through an assessment process that is fully integrated with the daily curriculum and designed to significantly improve student performance.
• Titolo autorizzato: Developing performance-based assessments
• ISBN: 1-4522-9618-9; 1-4522-1102-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797439203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II