Developing and Using Classroom Assessments (4th Edition) - Softcover

Oosterhof, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132414295 ISBN 13: 9780132414296

Publisher: Pearson, 2008

Synopsis

 

For Test and Measurement courses. Also appropriate as a supplement in an Educational Psychology or Teaching Methods course where assessment is given more than cursory treatment.

This brief, inexpensive text focuses on how to write, construct, and use assessments in the classroom. It continues to take a balanced approach to assessment, involving both traditional and innovative techniques. It includes the development and use of written tests, informal assessments, portfolios, and performance assessments. This balanced approach to assessment is what prospective teachers need when they get into the classroom.

About this title

From the Publisher

This inexpensive short paperback focuses on teacher development and use of a wide range of assessments. In Developing and Using Classroom Assessments, Oosterhof provides both prospective and practicing teachers with a thorough, balanced integration of theoretical principles and hands-on experiences of assessment techniques that are relevant to today's classroom.

From the Back Cover

This updated, brief, inexpensive book focuses on how to write, construct, and use assessments in the classroom. It continues to take a balanced approach to assessment, involving both traditional and innovative techniques. It includes the development and use of written tests, informal assessments, portfolios, and performance assessments. This balanced approach to assessment is what prospective teachers need when they get into the classroom.Coverage includes integrating assessments into the learning process, showing the implications of research in cognitive psychology and showing how classroom assessments can facilitate transfer of learning and development of problem solving skills.For professionals in the field of Educational Psychology or anyone interested in teaching methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132414295
• ISBN 13: 9780132414296
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 312