Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing

Wiggins, Grant P.

ISBN 10: 1555425925 / ISBN 13: 9781555425920

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1993

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1993, V.Good, HB, ISBN: 1-55542-592-5, EX-LIB with few markings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555425925
• ISBN 13: 9781555425920
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Education
  • Children

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Synopsis

Wiggins has written the most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise available on the imperative to change the ways we test and assess student performance.
:?Educational Leadership

:By showing us that assessment is more that testing and intellectual performance is more than right answers, Wiggins points the way toward new systems of assessment that more closely examine students′ habits of mind and provide teachers with more useful and credible feedback.

About the Author

GRANT P. WIGGINS is director of programs for the Center on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure (CLASS), a not–for–profit educational research and consulting organization in Geneseo, New York. He has consulted with numerous schools, districts, and states on assessment and curriculum reform, including Kentucky, California, New York, Vermont, and Maryland.