Assessment of Student Achievement
ISBN: 9780132689632 | 0132689634
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 1/6/2012
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Balanced, concise, and practical, Waugh and Gronlund's Assessment of Student Achievement, Tenth Edition, is the best book on the market for preparing teachers to assess students in their classrooms. Long highly-regarded, this guide offers educators the essential and indispensable tools educators need to support the development of high-quality assessments in the classroom, You will find that this dynamic author team gives equal emphasis to testing and performance assessment each used when it is most appropriate as integral steps that improve stu... MORE
Chapter 1: Achievement Assessment and Instruction
Chapter 2: Nature of Student Assessment
Chapter 3: Planning for Assessment
Chapter 4: Validity and Reliability
Chapter 5: Preparing and Using Achievement Tests
Chapter 6: Writing Selection Items: Multiple Choice
Chapter 7: Writing Selection Items: True-... MORE
Chapter 8: Writing Supply Items: Short Answer and Essay
Chapter 9: Performance Assessments
Chapter 10: Assessment in Distance Education
Chapter 11: Grading and Reporting
Chapter 12: Interpreting Standardized Achievement Test Scores
Chapter 13: Using Assessment in Action Research
Appendix A: Revised Edition of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Appendix B: Self-Assessment Answer Key
Dr. C. Keith Waugh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Workforce Education and Development at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Over his fifteen-year career in academia, Dr. Waugh has held numerous leadership appointments including department chair, and continues to teach both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in student assessment, research methods, and program evaluation. Dr. Waugh is the author or co-author of over 20 books, articles, and professional papers; a frequent speaker at national conferences and other venues on the topics of assessment and evaluation; and invited regularly to conduct evaluations of post-secondary programs. In 2006, Dr. Waugh was awarded the College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Teacher of the Year Award.
