Assessment Essentials for Standards-Based Education

Herausgeber: McMillan, James H

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by an expert in the field of classroom assessment, Essential Assessment Concepts for Teachers and Administrators, Second Edition is a user-friendly resource that helps teachers, administrators, and other school personnel understand how to apply essential assessment concepts in their schools. This guide is also an ideal reference for policymakers in making assessment-related decisions. Whether the assessment is focused on what occurs in the classroom or on externally mandated standardized tests, teachers will learn how to effectively integrate the assessment process with teaching and learning to enhance student learning and promote overall educational goals. The author provides guidelines for developing high-quality assessments and for using them appropriately and discusses important principles of standardized testing, including standards-based testing. This second edition features two new chapters. Chapter 5áprovides a succinct overview of different assessment techniques and methods, including both constructed-response and closed-end assessments, while Chapterá8 discusses grading practices in the context of standards-based education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 180mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781412955515
• ISBN-10: 1412955513
• Artikelnr.: 23233198

Autorenporträt

James H. McMillan is professor and chair of foundations of education at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where he teaches educational research and assessment courses and directs the Research and Evaluation Track of the PhD in education program. He is also director of the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium, a partnership of Virginia Commonwealth University and seven Richmond-area school divisions that conducts and disseminates action and applied research. His current research interests include classroom and large-scale assessment. He has recently published the third edition of Classroom Assessment: Principles and Practice for Effective Standards-Based Instruction and edited Formative Classroom Assessment: Theory into Practice. He has authored three educational research methods textbooks and published numerous articles in journals, including the American Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
About the Author
1. Integrated Assessment With Teaching and Learning
2. Validity
3. Reliability
4. Fairness
5. Assessment Methods, Items, and Techniques
6. Understanding and Using Numerical Data
7. Interpreting and Using National and State Large-Scale and Standardized
Tests
8. Grading
References
Index