In Teachers' Hands: Investigating the Practices of Classroom Assessment (Educational Leadership) - Softcover

Stiggins, Richard J.; Conklin, Nancy Faires

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791409325 ISBN 13: 9780791409329

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1992

Synopsis

This book marks the starting point of a profound shift in assessment priorities, detailing the results of a decade-long program of research on classroom assessment environments. It demonstrates how important sound classroom assessments are to student well-being, and provides insights into the complex demands of day-to-day classroom assessment on teachers who have been taught little about assessment in their training programs.

As a nation, we spend billions of dollars on educational assessment, including hundreds of millions for international and national assessments, and additional hundreds of millions for statewide testing programs. On top of these, the standardized tests that form the basis of district-wide testing programs represent a billion dollar industry. If we total all of these expensive highly-visible, politically-important assessments, we still account for less than one percent of all the assessments conducted in America's schools. The other 99 percent are conducted by teachers in their classrooms on a moment-to-moment, day-to-day, and week-to-week basis. Paradoxically, virtually all of our national, state, and local assessment resources are being devoted to research and development for large-scale assessments. This book provides specific action programs for improving the quality of the other 99 percent-the assessments that really drive what students learn and how they feel about it.

About this title

About the Author

Richard J. Stiggins is Director of the Center for Classroom Assessment. Nancy Faires Conklin is Director of the Child, Family, and Community Program at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, Oregon.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791409325
• ISBN 13: 9780791409329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 271