From two of the best known authors in the field of classroom assessment comes a revision of one of the best assessment books. Features include hundreds of examples, directions for crafting both traditional and alternative assessments, checklists for evaluating classroom assessments, scores of strategies...
There has been a long history of concern about the quality of student assessments and their use by educators, and rightly so. Test scores, grades, informal measurements, and other forms of assessment typically have been weighted heavily in decisions about students, programs, and policies. Malpracti...
Historically, many students with disabilities were excluded from large-scale assessments. Recent federal and state policy initiatives, including the most recent reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, require that the large majority of students with disabilities be included in ...
Teachersshouldbeskilledindevelopingvalidpupilgradingprocedures that use pupil assessments.6. Teachers should be skilled in communicating assessmentresultstostudents,parents,otherlayaudiences,andothereducators.7. Teachersshouldbeskilledinrecognizingunethical,illegal,andotherwiseinappropriateassessmentmethodsandusesof ...
A. Summative assessments are useless. B. Formative assessments should be the only form of assessment. C. Formative assessments play a significant role in showing students' learning progress. D. Students don't care about summative assessments. ...
Coverage encompasses all of the issues surrounding the use of classroom assessments (validity, reliability, bias, impact) through targeted discussions that address everything prospective teachers need to know, completely yet succinctly. The authors offer a comprehensive menu of techniques for assessing ...
These preliminary data support national assessments of perceptions and achievements of senior medical students to guide residency readiness in the EPA era. 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and The Association for the Study of Medical Education.doi:10.1111/tct.12688...
adopt modern methods for designing and interpreting complex assessments; account for context; design for fairness and accessibility; design for positive impact; design for engagement; incorporate information from multiple sources; respect privacy; gather and share validity evidence; and use technology to ...
These systems log all students’ interactions within the given system, and if fully leveraged, these logs provide rich assessments of inquiry skills. Here, we describe our environment Inq-ITS (inquiry intelligent tutoring system), that uses educational data mining to assess science inquiry skills, ...
The Strengths and Weaknesses Heuristic (S&W Heuristic) was constructed in order to reduce biased assessments of students with (suspicion of) Intellectual Giftedness in co-occurrence with Autism Spectrum Disorder (IG + ASD) and to establish a well-founded interconnection between assessment data and ...