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What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Assessment
- Donna Walker Tileston - Strategic Teaching and Learning, Dallas, TX
October 2003 | 136 pages | Corwin
The state-of-the-art guide to research-based student assessment
How do teachers know that students know? Donna Tileston's innovative guide to building brain-compatible assessments can help every teacher identify and enhance student understanding. Topics covered:
- Building and aligning standards-based assessment
- Test anxiety and the brain
- Teacher-made tests
- State and national assessments
- Tests for multiple intelligences
- Performance tasks
- Teacher observations and student self-assessment
- Building and using rubrics
- Building aligned assessments
- Assessing the assessments
- Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
- Bibliography and index
- Test anxiety and the brain
About the Author
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
