Classroom Assessment for Teachersprovides 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.
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 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 PathDr. Raymond Witte received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1991 and has been teaching at Miami University since 1993. During his tenure at Miami, he has taught a wide range of courses including the assessment l#A