Description : The ability to construct and use classroom assessments is an essential educational skill for all teachers. Ongoing formal and informal classroom assessments provide teachers with the information they need to monitor and make decisions about their teaching and their students' learning. Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications covers the broad range of assessments that confront teachers both in their classrooms and beyond. Each type of assessment is presented with attention to both concepts and application, so that students will understand the reasons and cautions that are inherent in the assessments they construct and interpret. Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications provides a broad introductory overview of the critical terms, practices, and issues associated with assessment and evaluation.
New Features :
Length and Coverage: This text is concise but doesn't scrimp on coverage. The text has been condensed from 11 chapters to 10 following the length of a typical semester.
Realistic Assessment: The focus throughout is on the realities of classrooms and how assessments can serve these realities.
Canadian Content and Examples: Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications includes a great number of Canadian examples, illustrations, and strategies for application, plus such practical concerns as organizing the classroom and interpreting assessment results.
Validity and Reliability: These central assessment concepts are introduced in the first chapter and then linked in later chapters to each specific type of assessment information. The validity and reliability issues of diagnostic, formative, summative, and performance assessment and standardized testing are identified. Practical strategies to improve validity and reliability of varied assessment approaches are presented in each chapter.
Practical Guidelines: A portion of each chapter focuses on practical guidelines to follow and common errors to avoid when using the type of assessment being presented.
Case Studies: Accessible through the Online Learning Centre, these Canadian case studies bring chapter topics to life.
Students with Exceptionalities: The assessment of students with exceptionalities has been integrated into many chapters of this book.
Table of Contents :
Chapter 1
The Breadth of Classroom Assessment
Chapter 2
Learning about Students: Diagnostic Assessment
Chapter 3
Instructional Planning and Assessment
Chapter 4
Assessing During Instruction: Formative Assessment
Chapter 5
Preparing Selected and Constructed Response Tests
Chapter 6
Administration of Selected and Constructed Response Tests
Chapter 7
Performance Assessments
Chapter 8
Grading
Chapter 9
Large-Scale Assessment
Chapter 10
Standardized Achievement Tests
Epilogue
Summing Up Classroom Assessment
Appendix A
Excerpted from Principles for Fair Student Assessment Practices for Education in Canada
Appendix B
Taxonomy Of Educational Objectives: Major Categories And Illustrative Objectives
Appendix C
Statistical Applications for Classroom Assessment
About the Author:
Peter Airasian Sorry. No Biographical Information Currently Available.
Joseph Engemann Sorry. No Biographical Information Currently Available. Tiffany Gallagher Tiffany L. Gallagher, PhD, is a member in the pre-service department of the Faculty of Education at Brock University. She teaches courses in educational psychology, assessment and evaluation, and teaching practices. She has recently co-authored Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications, Canadian Edition. Professionally, Tiffany was an administrator in private practice supplemental education for more than a decade. Her doctoral studies focused on the effects of tutoring students with learning difficulties and the associated experiences of their literacy tutors. Tiffany's current research interests include literacy assessment, reading and writing strategy instruction, the role of the special education teacher, teachers with learning disabilities and post-secondary education for persons with disabilities.
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Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications, First Edition