An Introduction to Student-Involved Assessment FOR Learning (6th Edition)
A multiple award-winning text, this is the market-leader for assessment courses. Keenly focused on instructing new teachers how to assess students in classrooms, the text shows how to use assessment to accurately reflect student achievement and how to benefit–not merely grade–student learning. With an exceptionally strong focus on integrating assessment with instruction through student involvement in the assessment process, it is clearly the most non-technical, hands-on and practical orientation to assessment validity and reliability yet developed Features of this new edition include: NewExploring the Social/Cultural Dimensions of Assessmentactivities connect the assessment process directly to the increasingly diverse community beyond school. Presents assessment linked directly and completely to student success in standards-driven schools, increasing the relevance to today’s school improvement priorities. Features a completely revised chapter on using assessment to serve a variety of purposes–on balancing local assessment systems to serve diverse users and uses (Chapter 2). Features a new chapter on classroom assessment record keeping for communicating achievement results by standard and for different purposes, and to support and certify learning (Chapter 10). Enhanced and expanded treatment of reasoning and problem-solving proficiencies links the presentation directly to newly released Common Core Literacy and Math Standards, and to the assessment of life-long learner proficiencies (Chapter 3). Now features two separate chapters on Portfolios and Conferences (Chapters 12 and 13).