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Preface | |
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The Breadth of Classroom Assessment Purposes of Assessment | |
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Types of Assessment Assessment, Testing, and Information | |
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Three General Ways to Collect Data: Paper-and-Pencil, Observation, and Oral Questioning | |
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Standardized and Nonstandardized Assessments | |
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Good Assessments: Valid and Reliable | |
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Ethical Issues and Responsibilities | |
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Learning About Pupils: Early Assessment | |
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Gathering Information about Pupils | |
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Sources of Learning about Pupils | |
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Forming Pupil Descriptions | |
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Concerns about Ethics and Accuracy | |
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Improving Early Assessments | |
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Clues to Language Disabilities | |
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Lesson Planning and Assessment Objectives | |
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The Instructional Process Instructional Planning | |
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Three Levels of Educational Objectives | |
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Three Domains of Objectives | |
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Lesson Plans | |
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Improving the Tie Between Planning and Assessment | |
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Planning, Disabilities, and Accommodations | |
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Other Sources of Educational Objectives and Assessments | |
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Textbook Objectives and Assessments | |
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Statewide Assessments | |
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Implications of High-Stakes | |
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Testing No Child Left Behind | |
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Assessment During Instruction | |
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Assessment Task During Instruction | |
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Validity and Reliability in Instructional | |
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Assessment Improving | |
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Assessment During Instruction | |
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Questioning Accommodations | |
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During Instruction | |
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Official Assessments Formative and Summative Assessments | |
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The Logic of Formal Assessment | |
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Planning an Official Assessment | |
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Preparing Pupils for Official Assessments | |
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Paper-and-Pencil Testing | |
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Selection and Supply Test Items | |
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Higher Level Questions | |
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Guidelines for Writing and Critiquing | |
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Test Items Accommodations: Substitutions for Paper-and-Pencil | |
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Improving Paper-and-Pencil Assessments | |
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Assembling Tests | |
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Administering Tests | |
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Issues of Cheating Scoring | |
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Paper-and-Pencil Tests | |
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Analyzing Item Validity | |
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Discussing Test Results with Pupils | |
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Testing Pupils with Disabilities | |
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Performance Assessments | |
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Performance Assessments in Schools | |
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Developing Performance Assessments | |
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Anecdotal Records, Checklists, and Rating Scales | |
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Rubrics Portfolios Validity and Reliability of Performance Assessments | |
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Grading Rationale and Difficulties of Grading | |
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Grading as Judgement | |
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Four Types of Comparison for Grading | |
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Grading for Cooperative | |
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Learning and Pupils with Disabilities | |
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Deciding What to Grade | |
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Summarizing Varied Types of Assessment | |
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Two Approaches to Assigning Grades | |
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Other Methods of Reporting Pupil Progress | |
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Commercial Standardized Achievement Tests | |
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How Commercial Achievement Tests are Created | |
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Administering the Test | |
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Interpreting Scores | |
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Three Examples of Test Interpretation | |
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The Validity of Commercial Achievement Tests | |
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Reporting Results to Parents | |
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Classroom Assessment: Summing Up | |
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Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students | |
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Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Major Categories and Illustrative Objectives) | |
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Sample Individual Education Plan | |
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Statistical Applications for Classroom Assessment | |
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Glossary | |
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References | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |