Teacher-Made Assessments - Christopher R. Gareis

Assessment is not only a measure of student learning but a means to student learning. This bestselling book guides you in constructing and using your own classroom assessments including tests quizzes essays and rubrics to improve student achievement. You will learn how to weave together curriculum instruction and learning to make assessment a more natural useful part of teaching. Find out how to... ensure your assessments are fair reliable and valid; construct assessments that meet the level of cognitive demand expected of students; create select-response items and understand technology-enhanced items that are increasingly being used on assessments; use constructed-response items and develop scoring criteria such as rubrics; and analyze student results on assessments and use feedback more effectively. This second edition features updated examples that reflect the Common Core State Standards as well as other content standards and new useful samples of teacher-friendly techniques for strengthening classroom assessment practices. No matter what grade level or subject area you teach this practical book will become your go-to resource for designing effective assessments.

TITLE: Teacher-Made Assessments

AUTHOR: Christopher R. Gareis

SKU: 9781138776128

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 01/04/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 192

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 178 mm x 254 mm

WEIGHT: 408 gr