2nd Edition
What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Assessment
By Leslie Walker Wilson
Copyright 2005
168 Pages
by
Eye On Education
168 Pages
by
Eye On Education
176 Pages
by
Eye On Education
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This is the second edition of a highly successful book, previously titled Better Instruction Through Assessment: What Your Students Are Trying to Tell You. The revision was undertaken to respond to the No Child Left Behind legislation, which has changed the way we must look at students' achievement data. This book shows you how to: - get the most out of your state's high stakes standardized tests... Read more
- Why Do We Need To Know About Assessment
Be the Best You Can Be
No Child Left Behind
Teaching to the Test?
- What You Must Know About the Assessments You Administer
Standardized tests
Types of Scores
Putting It Into Practice
- Essential Measurement Concepts Measurement Error
Reliability
Standard Error of Measurement
Validity
Correlations
Limitations of Assessment Data
Putting It Into Practice
- Preparing Your Student To Show What They Know
Test Taking Skills
The Classroom Assessment
Developing Your Own Assessments
Using Assessment Data
Putting It Into Practice
- Threats To Validity
What to Do with Invalid Test Results
Questions to Guide Data Analysis
Putting It Into Practice
- Using Assessment Results to Identify Instructional Needs
Making Observations
Some Actual Student Responses
Be the Best You Can Be
No Child Left Behind
Teaching to the Test?
- What You Must Know About the Assessments You Administer
Standardized tests
Types of Scores
Putting It Into Practice
- Essential Measurement Concepts Measurement Error
Reliability
Standard Error of Measurement
Validity
Correlations
Limitations of Assessment Data
Putting It Into Practice
- Preparing Your Student To Show What They Know
Test Taking Skills
The Classroom Assessment
Developing Your Own Assessments
Using Assessment Data
Putting It Into Practice
- Threats To Validity
What to Do with Invalid Test Results
Questions to Guide Data Analysis
Putting It Into Practice
- Using Assessment Results to Identify Instructional Needs
Making Observations
Some Actual Student Responses
Biography
Leslie Walker Wilson
