A Teachers Guide To Classroom Assessment Understanding And Using Assessment To Improve Student Learning

A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Assessment is acomprehensive guide that shows step-by-step how to effectivelyintegrate assessment into the classroom. Written for both new andseasoned teachers, this important book offers a practical aid fordeveloping assessment skills and strategies, building assessmentliteracy, and ultimately improving student learning. Based on extensive research, this book is filled withillustrative, down-to-earth examples of how classroom assessmentworks in classrooms where assessment drives the instruction. Theauthors present the Classroom Assessment Cycle—Clarifyinglearning targets, Collecting assessment evidence, Analyzingassessment data, and Modifying instruction based upon assessmentdata—that demonstrates how one assessment action must flowinto the next to be effective. Each chapter details the kinds ofassessment evidence that are the most useful for determiningstudent achievement and provides instruction in the analysis ofassessment data.