Designing Effective Assessments

ebook Accurately Measure Students' Mastery of 21st Century Skills

By James H. Strong

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Assessment is a critical component of effective teaching and learning. To gain valuable assessment data and make effective use of them, educators must have the right tools in place to create quality assessments. Designed specifically for K–12 educators, this title presents ten key assessment design tools and clearly outlines how to incorporate each tool into daily classroom practices. With quality assessment processes in place, teachers at all grade levels can accurately measure student mastery and shape instruction to increase achievement.

Benefits

  • Gain student learning data and help students visualize their own learning progress.
  • Explore the benefits of involving students in the assessment process.
  • Learn how to align grading policies and practices to ensure they are valid and reliable.
  • Examine how standards-based grading and reporting communicate student learning better than traditional assessment practices.
  • Consider how to teach students test-taking skills, which help students perform well and demonstrate their real level of achievement on assessments.
  • Use reproducible handouts to create your own effective assessment and feedback practices.
  • Contents

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: Enhancing Validity and Reliability of Assessments

    Chapter 2: Measuring Students' Attitudes, Dispositions, and Engagement Using Affective Assessment

    Chapter 3: Assessing Student Criterion-Referenced Learning Using Performance-Based Assessment

    Chapter 4: Documenting Student Progress through Portfolios

    Chapter 5: Creating Rubrics for Student Feedback

    Chapter 6: Building Practical Grading Practices

    Chapter 7: Building Valid and Reliable Grading Practices

    Chapter 8: Improving Communication through Standards-Based Grading

    Chapter 9: Understanding and Using Standardized Assessment Data

    Chapter 10: Teaching Test-Taking Skills

    Designing Effective Assessments