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Classroom Assessment Concepts and Applications

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ISBN-10: 0072488697

ISBN-13: 9780072488692

Edition: 5th 2005

Authors: Peter W. Airasian

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Airasian presents complex concepts clearly so that pre-service teachers can understand them, and solidly grounds these concepts in best practice through practical, real, well-integrated examples. He talks to, not at users. The text conceives of classroom assessment in a broader way than many other texts. It focuses not only on the assessment needs of testing, grading, interpreting standardized tests, and performance assessments but also on assessment concerns in organizing a classroom at the start of school, planning and implementing instruction, and strategies of teacher self reflection. Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications views classroom assessment as an everyday, ongoing,…    
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Book details

List price: $71.25
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.20" wide x 9.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Peter W. Airasian is Professor of Education at Boston College, where he is Chair of the Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation Program. His main teaching responsibilities are instructing pre- and in-service teachers in classroom assessment strategies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, with a concentration in testing, evaluation, and assessment. He is a former high school chemistry and biology teacher. He has authored numerous books on assessment, including of Minimal Competency Testing (1979), School Effectiveness: A Reassessment of the Evidence (1980), The Effects of Standardized Testing (1982), Teacher Evaluation Toolkit (1997), Assessment in the Classroom…    

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