New and updated features of this title
- UPDATED: The text includes 5 keys to quality classroom assessment drawn from the measurement field and adapted to the needs of the classroom. These define the conditions needed for accuracy and the conditions for effective use. The keys have been revised in the 3rd Edition to place greater emphasis on formative use of classroom assessment results.
- NEW: My Classroom Then and Now and From the Classroom features present anecdotes from classroom teachers that illustrate how the specific assessment practices taught in this text have changed students' attitudes and approaches to learning.
- NEW: Fresh content and examples have been added on the following topics, among many others:
- Formative assessment practices that are useful with performance assessments, and with selected and written response assessments
- Assessment competencies that are required to complete a standards-based report card with accurate, fair and defensible results
- Student goal orientation with an emphasis on helping students adopt a learning orientation to their work
About our authors
Jan Chappuis, educator and author, joined Rick Stiggins at the Assessment Training Institute in Portland, Oregon, in 2001. Prior to that she had been an elementary and secondary teacher as well as a curriculum developer in English/language arts, mathematics, social studies and world languages.
For over 25 years, she has written books and developed workshops on classroom assessment literacy, presenting both nal“4