"Proven techniques for integrating assessment with teaching and learning!"
This user-friendly resource shows teachers and administrators how to incorporate the assessment process with teaching and learning to reveal what students know and what to teach next. This second edition features two new chapters covering different assessment techniques and methods???including constructed-response and closed-end assessments???and grading practices in the context of standards-based education. The author discusses principles of testing, including validity, reliability, and fairness, and helps educators: Develop high-quality summative and formative assessments Understand and use data to improve assessment and learningPrepare students for state and national standardized tests
This revised edition shows educators how to integrate assessment with teaching and learning and offers new chapters that discuss a variety of assessment and grading techniques.
“"An important key to blending data with change."”
-- The Bookwatch, July 2008
James H. McMillan is Professor and Chair of the Department 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 Executive Director of the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium, a partnership of Virginia Commonwealth University and eight Richmond-area school divisions that conducts and disseminates applied research. His current research interests include classroom and large-scale formative assessment. He has recently published the fifth 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.
"Proven techniques for integrating assessment with teaching and learning!" This user-friendly resource shows teachers and administrators how to incorporate the assessment process with teaching and learning to reveal what students know and what to teach next. This second edition features two new chapters covering different assessment techniques and methods'including constructed-response and closed-end assessments'and grading practices in the context of standards-based education. The author discusses principles of testing, including validity, reliability, and fairness, and helps educators: Develop high-quality summative and formative assessments Understand and use data to improve assessment and learningPrepare students for state and national standardized tests
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