What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Assessment

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Donna Walker Tileston - Strategic Teaching and Learning, Dallas, TX

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Student Assessment | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles

March 2014 | 136 pages | Corwin

This is a guide for teachers that provides current research on performance assessment, standardized tests, and teacher-made tests; explores the implications of standards-based instruction in the classroom; differences between traditional and alternative assessments, formative and summative assessments; portfolios and self-assessments; and more.

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Introduction

Vocabulary Pre-Test

1. Making Decisions About Assessment

2. Identifying and Enhancing Student Understanding

3. Formats for Teacher Made Tests

4. Testing for Intelligence

5. Performance Tasks

6. Using a Matrix or Rubric

7. Building Aligned Assessments

8. State and National Assessments

Glossary

Vocabulary Post-Test

Bibliography

Index

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Making Decisions About Assessment

Donna E. Walker Tileston

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin's bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies... More About Author

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