Understanding Instructionally Useful Assessment (Student Assessment for Educators) - Softcover

Evans, Carla; Marion, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032485485 ISBN 13: 9781032485485

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Understanding Instructionally Useful Assessment offers new insights into how various types of assessments, from the state to the classroom, will differ in their usefulness for supporting instructional decision-making and student learning. In order to most effectively serve students, it is essential that educators avoid conflating the assessment information that teachers use for instructional purposes and the data that leaders and administrators use for evaluative or monitoring purposes. This book provides classroom teachers as well as school and district leaders with a clear conception of what makes assessments―their purpose, design, reporting, and resulting information―useful or not for informing instruction and how they can select assessment tools suited to specific purposes. Each chapter addresses the knowledge and skills that K-12 staff need in order to challenge claims made by policymakers, test vendors, or even other educators that any assessment can be used to inform instruction. Educators will come away better prepared to remove unnecessary or redundant assessments from their systems and to create structures, policies, and processes that best support the instructional usefulness of assessments for student learning.

About this title

About the Author

Carla M. Evans, PhD, is a Senior Associate at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (Center for Assessment).

Scott F. Marion, PhD, is the Executive Director at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (Center for Assessment).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032485485
• ISBN 13: 9781032485485
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198