How to Design Assessments to Promote Student Learning - Softcover

Cianca, Sherri

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798842191789

Publisher: Independently published, 2022

Synopsis

If you believe the main purpose for assessment is to advance student learning, this book is for you. The need is urgent to help students master deep understanding, and to do so with the support of effective classroom assessments. Teachers are key. They need to know more than about assessments: They need to be assessment designers.
With this goal in mind, the questions become “What are the characteristics of quality classroom assessments?” “How do I determine what is important for students to learn?” “How do I translate state/provincial standards into teachable, testable content?” “How do I prepare students for high-stakes tests?” “What evidence should I look for to verify that students have learned?” “How might I test deep understanding rather than shallow memorization?” “How can I compose ALL types of assessments to emphasize key content and high-order thinking, including true/false, multiple-choice, matching, and short-answer tests that have traditionally focused on low-level thinking?” “How do I assess student learning during project-based tasks?”
Research suggests that most teachers lack answers to these questions, and most teachers lack the skills required to write quality classroom assessments. How to Design Assessments to Promote Student Learningwas written to answers these questions and more. The book does so by giving clear guidelines, distinct examples, and how to directions—all of which are based in extensive practice and research which are documented to be highly effective.
If you want to design assessments to inform and fuel your teaching, if you want to design assessments to improve student learning, this book is for you.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798842191789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 337