Foundations of Meaningful Educational Assessment
Published on 4. March 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-0-07-340382-3 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
50 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
773 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-340382-3 (9780073403823)
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Gayla Nieminen is co-director with Diann Musial of Assessment Unlimited. She has written and edited test items for 18 years. Clients have ranged from individual schools to consortia of school districts to testing companies. In related work, she has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in testing at Northern Illinois University; given workshops to teachers and others on test item writing and test interpretation; studied longitudinal patterns of student test performance within a given school district; and conducted evaluations of test reliability and validity.
Content
1. The Nature of Assessment
2. The Psychological Foundations of Assessment
3. The Social Foundations of Assessment
4. Assessment: The Link between Standards and Learning
5. Selected Response Assessments
6. Constructed Response Assessments
7. Assessment Through Observation and Interview
8. Performance-Based Assessment
9. Portfolio Assessment and Rubric Development
10. Developing Grading Procedures
11. Statistical Applications to Classroom Assessment
12. Using Standardized Achievement Tests as Assessments
13. Assessment and the Law
14. Exceptionality and Assessment
15. Technology and Assessment
16. Reflective Self-assessment
Glossary
Appendices
2. The Psychological Foundations of Assessment
3. The Social Foundations of Assessment
4. Assessment: The Link between Standards and Learning
5. Selected Response Assessments
6. Constructed Response Assessments
7. Assessment Through Observation and Interview
8. Performance-Based Assessment
9. Portfolio Assessment and Rubric Development
10. Developing Grading Procedures
11. Statistical Applications to Classroom Assessment
12. Using Standardized Achievement Tests as Assessments
13. Assessment and the Law
14. Exceptionality and Assessment
15. Technology and Assessment
16. Reflective Self-assessment
Glossary
Appendices