Assessment of Classroom Learning

1. Integrating Technology in Classroom Assessment

2. Constructing a Useful Test (5 things to remember)

2.1. Significance

2.2. Teachability

2.3. Describability

2.4. Reportability

2.5. Non-Intrusiveness

3. Improving you Grading Methods: Assessment Practices to AVOID

3.1. Worshipping Averages

3.2. Using Zeros Indiscriminately

3.3. Providing Insufficient Instruction Before Testing

3.4. Teaching for one Thing but Testing for Another

3.5. Using Pop Quizzes to Motivate Students

3.6. Keeping the Nature and Content of a Test a Secret

3.7. Keeping the Criteria for an Assignment a Secret

3.8. Shifting Criteria

3.9. Comparing Apples and Oranges

4. What is Assessment?

4.1. Formative Assessment

4.2. Summative Assessment

5. Ways to Measure Student Learning

5.1. Written Tests

5.1.1. Selected Response

5.1.2. Short Answer

5.1.3. Essay Tests

5.2. Performance Assessments

5.2.1. Direct Writing

5.2.2. Portfolios

5.2.3. Exhibitions

5.2.4. Demonstrations

6. Ways to Evaluate Student Learning

6.1. Norm-Referenced Grading

6.2. Criterion-Referenced Grading