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Idol, Lorna; Nevin, Ann; Paolucci-Whitcomb, Phyllis – 1999
Curriculum-based assessments (CBAs) are teacher-constructed tests designed to measure students' skill achievements at specified grades directly. This book explains how to generate and revise CBA systems, which can be developed for various types of curriculum. The chapters are: (1) "CBAs for Reading"; (2) "CBAs for Written Expression"; (3) "CBAs…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Student Evaluation
Fogarty, Robin – 1998
To say that assessments must be authentic, dynamic, fluid, and formative is not to say that normative, standardized evaluations have no place in the overall assessment scheme. What is needed is a combination and balance of assessments. The tri-assessment model promotes using traditional assessments along with portfolio and performance assessments.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Models
Cox, James – 1996
This manual explains how to construct a questionnaire. It is intended for the novice researcher who has little experience in questionnaire construction. The first seven chapters discuss the following seven stages in questionnaire development: (1) establishing the guiding questions; (2) operationalizing and clarifying the guiding questions; (3)…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Models, Opinions
Lazear, David – 1999
New findings about intelligence as a set of capabilities that expand and change throughout life are changing the view of learning and necessity of assessment. This book presents a new view of assessment that is aligned with the emerging paradigm of multiple intelligences. A multiple intelligence approach to assessment should grow from multiple…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Lazear, David – 1994
The assessment conundrum results from the fact that students almost always know, understand, and have learned more than they can demonstrate on any tests administered. This book is about confronting current knowledge about assessment and applying it to restructuring the assessment process in schools so that assessment can become a means for…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Wilkerson, Judy R.; Lang, William Steve – Corwin Press, 2007
While school leaders have long sought a definitive tool for assessing teacher affect and dispositions, a practical method for measurement has proven elusive. This book presents a conceptual framework that helps educators understand what "appropriate dispositions" are, why it is important to measure them, and how to implement an assessment process…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Decision Making, Teacher Competencies, National Standards