Assessment in the Classroom: A Concise Approach - Softcover

Airasian, Peter W.

9780070007727: Assessment in the Classroom: A Concise Approach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070007721 ISBN 13: 9780070007727

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1995

This brief version of the author's larger text is approximately 40per cent shorter and is designed either for brief (1-2 hour) assessment courses or for broader courses where assessment is one of several major topics covered.

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From the Publisher:

Sizing-up assessment, assessment conducted early in the school year to organize and learn about pupils, is now a separate chapter to emphasize its importance.
New topics include: expanded treatment of accommodating pupils with disabilities, increased links between objectives and types of instructional approaches, more on state-wide standards and assessments with examples, an updated performance/alternative assessment chapter, and descriptions of twenty Web sites related to educational assessment.
Because of its length and price, it can be used either in short, 1-2 hour assessment courses or in any course in which assessment is a major component of the course.
Shows how assessment principles apply to the full range of decisions that teachers must make, not just to the formal evaluation of learning.
A good portion of each chapter presents practical guidelines to follow and common errors to avoid when conducting the type of assessment under discussion. This is the most teacher-friendly assessment text on the market.
These two central concepts are explained in chapter 1 and then linked in later chapters to each specific type of assessment.
Provides a thorough discussion of the various types of performance assessment, including portfolio assessment.
The grading chapter contains a section on how to grade students working in cooperative arrangements.

About the Author:

Peter W. Airasian is Professor of Education at Boston College, where he is Chair of the Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation Program. His main teaching responsibilities are instructing pre- and in-service teachers in classroom assessment strategies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, with a concentration in testing, evaluation, and assessment. He is a former high school chemistry and biology teacher. He has authored numerous books on assessment, including of Minimal Competency Testing (1979), School Effectiveness: A Reassessment of the Evidence (1980), The Effects of Standardized Testing (1982), Teacher Evaluation Toolkit (1997), Assessment in the Classroom (1997 and 2000), and Classroom Assessment (1991, 1994, 1997, and 2001)). He is a past Chair of the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group on Classroom Assessment. Currently, he is continuing his study of the role of assessments in classrooms and examining issues related to the evaluation of teachers.

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