Evaluation category: 669 books
by David A. Sousa
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Brain-Friendly Assessments: What They Are and How to Use Them guides teachers as they work to determine what, whom, where, and how to assess. Bestselling author David A. Sousa empowers teachers with valuable research findings from educational neuroscience as he describes critical factors to consider...
Using Rubrics for Performance-Based Assessment
A Practical Guide to Evaluating Student Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Writing a rubric that can accurately evaluate student work can be tricky. Rather than a single right or wrong answer, rubrics leave room for interpretation and thus subjectivity. How does a teacher who wants to use performance-based assessment in this day and age of SMART goals find a way to reliably...
by Stafford A. Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
This is the first book on the issue of school-based assessment (SBA) in a public examination. The book explores the historical, conceptual, theoretical and practical dimensions of SBA in a public examination by considering related literature and the writer's own experience as an educational practitioner,...
Assessment in the Critical Skills Classroom
The Critical Skills Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Assessing from a progressive standpoint can be challenging. This text explores tools and strategies for assessment in experiential, problem-based classrooms as well as the Critical Skills Classroom. We will also explore assessment of skills and dispositions (i.e., communication, collaboration, problem solving, organization, etc.)
by T. Kelleghan, George F. Madaus, P.W. Airasian
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish...
by Jim Webber
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
An Alternate Pragmatism for Going Public interrogates composition’s most prominent responses to contemporary K–16 education reform. By “going public,” teachers, scholars, and administrators rightfully reassert their expertise against corporate-political standards and assessments like the...
Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom
How Do We Really Know They're Learning?
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
How can students knock the top off any test? That’s one of the 14 key questions that Dr. Marcia L. Tate answers in Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They're Learning? Although teachers find some types of assessments difficult to grade, these assessments...
Classroom Observer
Developing Observation Skills in Early Childhood Settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Systematic observation is essential for educators to evaluate properly the effectiveness of curricula and to address the problems of individual students. This new third edition emphasizes early childhood, and focuses on those skills that will enable the observer to make appropriate, valid inferences...
Unlocked
Assessment as the Key to Everyday Creativity in the Classroom (Teaching and Measuring Creativity and Creative Skills)
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Creativity enhances the quality of our lives, encouraging us to look deeper, search wider, and explore multiple perspectives. With Unlocked by Katie White, you'll discover how to effectively connect creativity and assessment of creativity within any classroom setting. A variety of practical ideas...
by Matthew Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
This book is packed with strategies that school and district leaders at all levels can use to run effective staff meetings, inclusion teaching teams, and committees or task forces.
Assessment for Learning
A Practical Approach for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This book guides teachers as they develop and analyze meaningful assignments that can be used as formative assessments in the classroom. This system is easy and will result in relevant data to use for differentiation. The assessments are directly based on the work of the classroom rather than developed...
Managing and Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
New edition of a classic guide to ensuring effective organizational performance
Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of Managing and Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations is a comprehensive resource for designing and implementing effective performance management...
Proficiency-Based Assessment
Process, Not Product
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
With this user-friendly resource, teachers will discover how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments. Learn the essentials of proficiency-based assessment, investigate why this kind of assessment...
Designing and Using Performance Tasks
Enhancing Student Learning and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Stretch student thinking with performance-based tasks.
With the continual increase of high-stakes assessments also comes the surge of professional development on designing performance-based tasks. Providing step-by-step insights, this book shows you how to incorporate performance tasks as a...