Brain-Friendly Assessments: What They Are and How to Use Them
Published on 8. March 2015
128 pages
978-1-941112-38-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 when designing and selecting assessment techniques to accurately gauge how well students learn and retain information.
Sousa explores clear, practical, effective ways to develop and administer assessments that are in the best interest of students; design brain-friendly assessments to deepen students' understanding; and fairly assess all students, including English-language learners and those who are homeschooled.
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Content
- Cover
- BRAIN-FRIENDLY ASSESSMENTS
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1 Introduction
- What Is Brain-Friendly Assessment?
- The Current Status of Tests and Assessments
- Assessment and Testing Are Not the Same
- Attitudes toward Testing
- Teacher Attitudes
- Parent Attitudes
- Administrator Attitudes
- Do High-Stakes Tests Improve Student Achievement?
- Will Change Occur?
- If We Are Stuck with It, Let's Improve It
- Don't Forget the Serenity Prayer
- How this Book Can Help
- Chapter Contents
- Note about Effect Size
- 2 Why, Who, and What We Assess
- Major Purposes of Assessment
- Student Growth
- Teacher Effectiveness
- Matching Instruction with Curriculum
- School Climate and Dropouts
- Matching Assessments to Student Abilities
- Students with Special Needs
- English Language Learners
- What Should We Assess?
- Memory Systems
- Stages of Memory
- Types of Memory
- Beware the Working Memory Gambit
- Criteria for Long-Term Storage
- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
- Beyond Bloom's Taxonomy
- Assessing for Achievement
- Assessing for Performance
- Assessing for Proficiency
- The Influence of Mindsets
- Types of Mindsets
- Should We Assess Mindsets?
- 3 Designing and Using Preassessments and Formative Assessments
- Types of Assessments
- Preassessments
- Formative Assessment
- 4 Designing and Using Summative Assessments
- Types of Summative Assessments
- Rubrics
- Characteristics of Quality Summative Assessments
- Grading and Summative Assessments
- What Do Grades Accomplish?
- Assessing English Language Learners (ELLS)
- 5 Considering When and Where to Assess
- When We Assess Can Matter
- Assessments during the Day
- Assessments and High-Stakes Tests during the School Year
- Assessments during the Summer
- Where We Assess Can Matter
- 6 Putting It All Together
- Making Brain-Friendly Assessments Possible
- Assessing Students' Performance
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Index
