Educative Assessment |
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| Author:
| Wiggins, Grant P. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7879-8875-3 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $47.95 |
Book Description:
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As with the original book, this newly revised edition will lay out the rationale for alternatives to conventional testing in favor of performance-based assessment. It will include extensive new material on assessment design, including the crafting of performance tasks and the construction of rubrics for scoring assessments. It will cover grading and reporting practices as well as issues of fairness and teacher accountability. Finally, it will devote major attention to new developments...
More DescriptionAs with the original book, this newly revised edition will lay out the rationale for alternatives to conventional testing in favor of performance-based assessment. It will include extensive new material on assessment design, including the crafting of performance tasks and the construction of rubrics for scoring assessments. It will cover grading and reporting practices as well as issues of fairness and teacher accountability. Finally, it will devote major attention to new developments in the field as they apply to classroom assessment, including state based standards and high stakes testing, NCLB, inclusion, and the need for integrating assessment with differentiated instructional practice.