Knowing what students know
Subtitle: the science and design of educational assessment
By: Committee on the Foundations of Assessment, Board on Testing and Assessment, Center for Education, Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council ; James W. Pellegrino, Naomi Chudowsky, and Robert Glaser, editors.
Contributors: Pellegrino, James W.; Chudowsky, Naomi.; Glaser, Robert, 1921-; National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Committee on the Foundations of Assessment.
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Educational tests and measurements -- United States -- Design and construction; Cognitive learning theory
Other titles: Center for Educational Pluralism Collection.
Description: Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-347) and index.

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