Synopses & Reviews
Assessment is a daily, ongoing, integral part of teaching and learning.
Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications explores how assessment is a key component of all aspects of the instructional process, including organizing and creating a classroom culture, planning lessons, delivering instruction, and examining how students have grown as result of instruction.
The text also introduces preservice teachers to new tools and approaches to classroom assessment that result from the infusion of computer-based technologies in schools. This is the most teacher-friendly assessment textbook availableone that will inform a teachers assessment practices for years to come.
About the Author
Peter W. Airasian is Professor of Education at Boston College, where he is Chair of the Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation Program. His main teaching responsibilities are instructing pre- and in-service teachers in classroom assessment strategies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, with a concentration in testing, evaluation, and assessment. He is a former high school chemistry and biology teacher. He has authored numerous books on assessment, including of Minimal Competency Testing (1979), School Effectiveness: A Reassessment of the Evidence (1980), The Effects of Standardized Testing (1982), Teacher Evaluation Toolkit (1997), Assessment in the Classroom (1997 and 2000), and Classroom Assessment (1991, 1994, 1997, and 2001)). He is a past Chair of the American Educational Research Associations Special Interest Group on Classroom Assessment. Currently, he is continuing his study of the role of assessments in classrooms and examining issues related to the evaluation of teachers.Michael Russell is Associate Professor of Education at Boston Colleges Lynch School of Education where he directs the Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative. His research and teaching interests lay at the intersection of assessment and technology. He teaches classroom assessment for pre-service students and courses that focus on issues in testing, assessment, and evaluation to graduate students. He has conducted several studies that focus on the use of computer-based technologies to increase test validity. These research issues include computers and writing, computer-based test accommodations for students with special needs, developing diagnostic tests for teachers to use in the classroom, and improving the instructional utility of large-scale tests. He is author of Technology and Assessment: the Tale of Two Interpretations.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Breadth of Classroom Assessment Chapter 2: Learning About Students: Early Assessment Chapter 3: Lesson Planning and Assessment Objectives Chapter 4: Formative Assessment Chapter 5: Summative Assessments Chapter 6: Designing, Administering, and Creating Achievement Tests Chapter 7: Universal Design for Assessment Chapter 8: Performance Assessments Chapter 9: Grading Chapter 10: Commercial Standardized Achievement Tests Chapter 11: Computer-Based Technology and Classroom Assessment Appendix A: Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students Appendix B: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Major Categories and Illustrative Objectives) Appendix C: Sample Individual Education Plan Appendix D: Statistical Applications for Classroom Assessment Appendix E: Some Resources for Identifying Special Needs Glossary References Name Index Subject Index