Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: Everything You Wanted to Know about Classroom Assessment (but didn’t know to ask)
How Chapter 1 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
Classroom Assessment Then and Now
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 2: Choose Your Own Path: Who are you?
How Chapter 2 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
Defining Your Assessment Philosophy
Social Justice and Equity
Universal Design or Accommodations (or Both?)
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 3: Working Backwards: Connecting Learning Objectives and Assessment
How Chapter 3 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 4: The Power of Formative Assessment: Feedback that Increases Learning
How Chapter 4 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
Formative Assessment is Different from the Other Guys
What Informal Formative Assessment Looks Like in the Classroom
What Formal Formative Assessment Looks Like in the Classroom
Formative Assessment Land
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 5: Choosing the Right Answer: Multiple-Choice Questions and Stuff Like That
How Chapter 5 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
Analyzing Multiple-Choice Items
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 6: Building the Right Answer Constructed-Response Items
How Chapter 6 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
What Constructed-Response Items Look Like
Essay Tests and Writing Assignments
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 7: Performance-Based Assessment What Can Your Students Do?
How Chapter 7 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
What is Performance-Based Assessment?
How and When to Use Performance Assessment
What Performance-Based Assessment Looks Like in the Classroom
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 8: Authentic Assessment Keeping it Real
How Chapter 8 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
In Search of “Authentic” Assessment
What Authentic Assessment Looks Like in the Classroom
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 9: One for All and All for One: Universal Design
How Chapter 9 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
One Test that Works for All
A Brief History of Accessibility
Designing Universal Design
Accommodations and Alternate Assessments
Writing Universally Designed Tests
The Nuts-and-Bolts and the Nitty-Gritty
Looking Back in this Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 10: Classroom Assessment Online and Onscreen
How Chapter 10 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
How to Think about Online Assessment
Technology and Authentic Assessment
Looking Back in this Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 11: Keeping Score Math and Stuff
How Chapter 11 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
Working with Real Data in the Classroom
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 12: Making the Grade
How Chapter 12 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
Validity and Reliability of Grading
Grading and the Different Approaches to Assessment
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter
Chapter 13: Standardized Tests
How Chapter 13 Fits in Our Instructional Strategy
How Standardized Tests Are Built
Validity and Reliability of Standardized Tests
Interpreting Standardized Test Scores
Talking to Parents about Standardized Test Scores
Statewide Standardized Tests
Ethics of Preparing Students for Standardized Tests
Looking Back in This Chapter
Questions with No Wrong Answers
Key Terms in this Chapter