Assessment Strategies for Monitoring Students' Learning Book

(Each chapter contains Synthesis Activities and Transitional Activities.)

Preface.

1. Difficult Decisions You Face as a Teacher.

2. Making Formative Judgments as You Teach.

3. Communicating Your Summative Evaluations of Student Learning.

4. The Art of Making Informed Decisions About Student Learning.

5. Pinpointing what Students Are to Learn.

6. Systematically Developing Measurements.

7. Monitoring Students' Progress as they Construct Concepts and Discover Relationships.

8. Monitoring Students' Development of Knowledge and Process Skills.

9. Monitoring Students' Development of Comprehension and Communication Skills.

10. Monitoring Students' Progress with Problem Solving.

11. Monitoring Students' Progress with Creative Thinking.

12. Monitoring Students' Attitudes.

13. Monitoring Students' Development of Psychomotor Skills.

14. Interpreting Systemwide and Standardized Test Results.

15. Examining the Relevance of Measurements.

16. Examining the Reliability of Measurements.

17. Examining the Effectiveness of Mini-Experiments.

Glossary.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.