1st Edition

The College Classroom Assessment Compendium A Practical Guide to the College Instructor’s Daily Assessment Life

By Jay Parkes, Dawn Zimmaro Copyright 2018
    254 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    254 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    The College Classroom Assessment Compendium provides new and seasoned instructors with comprehensive strategies, perspectives, and solutions for the daily challenges and issues involved in student assessment. Composed of cross-referenced, research-based entries organized for effective and immediate access, this book provides systematic explanations of assessment policies and practices, including guidelines for classroom implementation. Situated beyond the techniques covered in most instructor training and preparation, these practical entries draw from a variety of disciplines and offer an invaluable reference for college instructors interested in developing coherent, reliable classroom assessment climates.

    Dedication

    Table of Contents

    List of Figures

    List of Tables

    1. Introduction

    2. Align Assessments to Learning Objectives

    3. Assessment Philosophy

    4. Assessment Plan

    5. Attendance

    6. Beneficence

    7. Borderline Grade Cases

    8. Cheat Sheets or Crib Sheets

    9. Cheating and Plagiarism

    10. Collaborative Testing

    11. Compensatory and Conjunctive Grading

    12. Contract Grading and Learning Contracts

    13. Criterion-Referenced Grading Approaches

    14. Design Assessments First

    15. Drop a Question

    16. Drop the Lowest Grade

    17. Effort

    18. Equity

    19. Evaluation Anxiety

    20. Extra Credit

    21. Fairness

    22. Feedback

    23. Feedback Timing

    24. FERPA

    25. Formative and Summative Assessments

    26. Gatekeeping

    27. Grade Explanation

    28. Grade Feeding Frenzy

    29. Grade Inflation

    30. Groupwork

    31. Humor

    32. Incomplete Grades

    33. Late Work

    34. Learning-Oriented Assessment

    35. Low Test Scores

    36. Make-up Exams

    37. Mastery Opportunities

    38. Missing Assignments

    39. Non-Cognitive Factors

    40. Norm-Referenced Grading Approaches

    41. Not Everything That Matters Must Be Graded

    42. Online Assessment and Authentication

    43. Online Discussions

    44. Online Test Security

    45. Open-book Exams

    46. Our Policy on Policies

    47. Participation

    48. Peer Assessment

    49. Personal Disclosures

    50. Pop Quizzes

    51. Prior Knowledge

    52. Quizzing Frequency

    53. Rubrics

    54. Scoring Essay Tests, Papers, or Assignments

    55. Selected- and Constructed-response Questions

    56. Self-assessment

    57. Student Choice

    58. Take-Home Exams

    59. Test Security

    60. Zero Grades

    Resources

    References

    Biography

    Jay Parkes is Chair of the Department of Individual, Family, and Community Education and Professor of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico, USA.

    Dawn Zimmaro is Director of Learning Design and Assessment at the Open Learning Initiative at Stanford University, USA.

    "The College Classroom Assessment Compendium hits the sweet spot where expert substance meets collegial counsel. The table of contents reads like a ‘greatest hits’ of the assessment topics that college educators must continually address, and the book is packed with gems of practical, in-the-moment advice and the research to back them up. I expect this Compendium will become a relied-upon companion for both faculty and faculty developers alike."

    —Michael Sweet, Senior Associate Director of the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning through Research at Northeastern University, USA

    "Parkes and Zimmaro have created a terrific tool for college classroom assessment that will be useful to both novice and experienced instructors. Organized as brief, readable entries on assessment topics, the book allows users to look up their topic of interest and find the latest research and recommendations. Users of this book will gain confidence in their assessment decisions and garner solid information about student learning that will help both instructors and students."

    —Susan M. Brookhart, Professor Emerita in the School of Education at Duquesne University, USA

    "The College Classroom Assessment Compendium is a must-have book for all K-16 educators. Each teaching tip, delivered in two-page vignettes, provides practical, research-based wisdom on difficult issues like fairness in grading, extra credit, or turning in late work. As a teacher and administrator for the past three decades, this is the FIRST resource to which I would direct any faculty member with an interest in improving their craft."

    —Joseph Gerda, Professor of Mathematics at College of the Canyons, USA