This brief, inexpensive book focuses on how to write, construct, and use assessments in the classroom. It continues to take a balanced approach to assessment, involving both traditional and innovative techniques. It includes the development and use of written tests, informal assessments, portfolios, and performance assessments. This balanced approach to assessment is what prospective teachers need when they get into the classroom. Coverage includes integrating assessments into the learning process, showing the implications of...
Formative assessment has recently become a focus of renewed research as state and federal policy makers realize that summative assessments have reached a point of diminishing returns as a tool for increasing student achievement. Consequently, supporters of large-scale testing programs are now beginning to consider the potential of formative assessments to improve student achievement. The mission of this handbook is to comprehensively profile this burgeoning field of study.
This revised and expanded edition of How to Succeed at an Assessment Centre provides ideal preparation for assessment events and gives expert advice on how assessments are conducted and how to prepare for different forms of assessment. It looks in detail at each of these different assessments, from group exercises and psychometric tests to panel interviews and role play exercises. It includes practice questions with answers and explanations and new personality and emotional intelligence questionnaires.
This hands-on, inquiry-based program gives you the resources you need to fit science into your day by providing readable standards-based content, powerful integration of reading, vocabulary, and writing, as well as flexible three-step inquiry strategy and materials management solutions. Solid differentiated instruction to reach every learner and multiple ongoing assessments to prepare students for test success are also included in this science textbook.
Stereophile Magazine is devoted to high end audio, and features audio news updates, interviews, and reports on amplifiers, high-end loudspeakers, CD and DVD players, turntables, and digital processors. The experts at Stereophile perform detailed technical assessments using state-of-the-art equipment, and manufacturers of tested products respond to reviews in the same issue.
