Student-Centered Classroom Assessment - Softcover

Stiggins, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134329317 ISBN 13: 9780134329314

Publisher: Merrill Publishing Company, 1996

Synopsis

The book elucidates the fundamental importance of high-quality assessment to student academic well-being and promotes the development of student self-assessment as a critically important life skill.

Provides a clear, common sense description of all assessment methods (selected response, essay, performance, and personal communication) and how to align them with relevant achievement targets (knowledge, reasoning, skills, products, and dispositions). Easy-to-read and free of technical jargon, this book focuses squarely on what teachers need to know in order to make assessment work in classrooms.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This popular text focuses on assessment as an integral part of classroom instruction and shows how the use of student-involved assessment, record keeping, and communication can be highly motivating instrucitonal interventions. The text elucidat es the fundamental importance of high-quality assessment to student academic well-being and promotes the development of student self-assessment as a critically important life skill. Easy-to-read and free of technical jargon, this text focuses squarel y on what teachers need to know in order to make assessment work in classrooms.

About this edition

• Publisher: Merrill Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0134329317
• ISBN 13: 9780134329314
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 519