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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Examining the Many Purposes of Assessment | |
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| Demystify Performance-Based Assessments | |
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| Understand the Six Components of Assessment | |
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| Picture the Continuous Flow of Assessment | |
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| Know the Reasons for Selecting Your Assessments... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| Planning Assessments to Promote Understanding | |
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| Use Formal and Informal Assessments | |
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| Become a Data-Driven Teacher | |
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| Understand Assessment Principles and Practices | |
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| Watch for Common Errors in Assessing | |
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| Visualize the Overall Process... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| Collecting Baseline Data for Preassessments | |
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| Set Three Goals to Guide Your Preassessments | |
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| Question Each of the Six Components of Assessment | |
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| Keep Anecdotal Records | |
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| Follow These Guidelines as You Preassess | |
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| Realize That Assessment Is a Continuous Process... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| Aligning Appropriate Formative Assessments | |
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| Consider the Six Components of Assessment | |
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| Design Your Curriculum | |
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| Align Assessments With Curriculum and Instruction | |
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| Explore Cognition Via Patterns of Thought | |
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| Plan With Competence and Confidence... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| Incorporating Learning, Assigning Instruction Followed by Feedback and Correction | |
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| Assign Your Instruction and Activities | |
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| Employ Multiple Instructional Strategies | |
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| Consider These Assessment Recommendations | |
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| Include All Kinds of Questions With Your Formative Assessments | |
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| Optimize the Feedback | |
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| Involve Your Learners in the Process | |
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| Have Fun With Formative Assessments... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| Administering Summative Assessments | |
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| Connect to the Goals and Components of Assessment | |
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| Create Your Summative Assessments | |
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| Prepare Learners for Summative Assessments | |
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| Set Your Sights on the Five As | |
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| Continue the Assessment Cycle... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| Identifying What to Assess: Inviting the Five Types of Inquiry and Information | |
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| Introduce the Five Types of Inquiry | |
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| Balance Three Conditions With Five Types of Inquiry | |
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| Delve Into Responses | |
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| Enhance Variety in Your Inquiries | |
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| Include All Types of Thinking, Acting, and Feeling... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| Analyzing How to Assess: Applying the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication | |
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| Analyze the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication | |
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| Implement Assessments Purposefully | |
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| Develop Appraisals to Showcase Learning... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| Creating Assessment Templates and Rubrics | |
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| Construct the Assessment Template | |
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| Build Rubrics | |
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| Let Your Templates and Rubrics Do the Work for You... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| Conducting Evaluations and Accountability | |
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| Evaluate Accomplishments | |
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| Account for Progress | |
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| Concentrate on Your Effectiveness | |
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| Develop a Performance-Based Assessment Mindset... | |
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| Extend With Questions and Activities | |
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| References and Readings | |
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| Index | |