Reviews for Classroom Assessment Techniques; A Handbook for College Teachers

The average rating for Classroom Assessment Techniques; A Handbook for College Teachers based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-09-12 00:00:00 Jeremy Gross This book purports to give ideas on how to get feedback on what, how much, and how well students are learning. Tips include thinking through and assessing your personal teaching goals, and then creating assessments to achieve those ends. Chapter 2 presents a worksheet that helps you to identify the goals most pertinent to your teaching style. As the book points out, you can't know if your students have reached the learning goals you had hoped if you have not clearly articulated your goals at least to yourself. Chapter 3 takes you through the steps of classroom assessment techniques -- evaluation tools that function as "feedback devices." After glossing classroom assessment, the book then offers 50 different methods for gaining this feedback and evaluating the attainment of goals. Overall, this book would be helpful to the teacher putting together a 309K course -- it offers a clear way of thinking about the goals of your course. Often, we can get over-excited about our topic in 309K, and forget the learning goals -- this book offers help conceptualizing your course through goals and assessment. This book offers questions to ask yourself when creating course evaluations, but does not offer hand-outs or examples.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-06 00:00:00 James Pinon This book is packed with examples of classroom assessment techniques--methods to gauge how well students are understanding the material being taught. Each classroom assessment technique described includes the amount of time it takes to prepare and the time needed for the students to complete it. This is a must for college-level teachers, and I'm sure it would be applicable to the high school learning environment as well.