Classroom Assessment: Principles and Practice for Effective Standards-Based Instruction, First Canadian Ed.

Classroom Assessment provides prospective and current teachers with a concise, non-technical, and practical guide to conducting a full range of high-quality classroom assessments.  It is aimed at building assessment into the instructional process, by focusing on assessment concepts and principles that are essential for effective teacher decision making.

Ideal for both prospective and practicing teachers, Classroom Assessment is written from the perspective that student evaluation is an integral part of teaching, not something done after instruction to measure what students have learned.  This text emphasizes assessment in the context of real classroom examples and decision-making.  The book provides Canadian teachers with a concise presentation of assessment principles that clearly and specifically relate to standards-based instruction, current research and new directions in the assessment field, along with practical and realistic examples, suggestions, and case studies.