Classroom Assessment for Teachers

Chapter 1: Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Chapter 2: Elements of the Instruction-Learning-Assessment Model

Chapter 3: Academic Standards and Evidence of Student Learning

Chapter 4: Validity, Reliability, and Avoiding Assessment Bias

Chapter 5: Formative Assessment: Guiding Student Learning

Chapter 6: Performance Assessment

Chapter 7: Self-Assessment and Progress Monitoring

Chapter 8: Summative Assessment: Confirming Student Achievement

Chapter 9: Grading and Student Evaluation

Chapter 10: Statistics in the Classroom

Chapter 11: Standardized Tests and High Stakes Testing

Chapter 12: Assessment of Students with Identified Learning Needs

Chapter 13: Classroom Assessment and Response to Intervention (RTI)

Chapter 14: Affective Assessment

Chapter 15: Getting Started on the Assessment Path

Classroom Assessment for Teachers provides students with essential professional knowledge/skill sets along with contemporary issues surrounding the assessment of student learning progress and achievement. By utilizing an inquiry-oriented approach, pre-service teacher candidates can explore the essential relationship between assessment and teaching with a deliberate focus on encouraging students to construct their own assessment framework and select measures and procedures that are designed to meet their own needs along with those of their students. Individual chapters are devoted to critical assessment topics, including instruction-learning-assessment alignment, formative assessment, self-assessment, formative assessment, grading, Response to Intervention (RTI), performance assessment, affective assessment, as well as high-stakes testing, validity and reliability, and the use of applied statistics in the classroom.