Classroom Assessment in Action

Title Page\n......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
A Note to the Reader: Theory to Practice......Page 14
CHAPTER 1. Orientation to Assessment......Page 16
CHAPTER 2. Planning Assessments......Page 42
CHAPTER 3. Observation: Bases of Assessment......Page 70
CHAPTER 4. Formative Assessment: Using Assessment for Improving Instruction......Page 98
CHAPTER 5. Performance Assessment......Page 134
CHAPTER 6. Developing Objective Tests......Page 168
CHAPTER 7. Developing Subjective Tests......Page 200
CHAPTER 8. Selecting Standardized Tests......Page 224
CHAPTER 9. Technology in Assessment......Page 252
CHAPTER 10. Improving Tests......Page 288
CHAPTER 11. Domain-Specific Assessment and Learning......Page 320
CHAPTER 12. Grading......Page 362
CHAPTER 13. Supplementary Assessments of Individual Differences......Page 386
CHAPTER 14. High-Stakes Testing: Policy and Accountability......Page 434
CHAPTER 15. Assessment and Best Practices......Page 472
CHAPTER 16. Test Bias, Fairness, and Testing Accommodations......Page 498
Index......Page 538
About the Authors......Page 558