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What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Assessment

By: Donna E. Walker Tileston

The state-of-the-art guide to research-based student assessment

How do teachers know that students know? Donna Tileston's innovative guide to building brain-compatible assessments can help every teacher identify and enhance student understanding. Topics covered:

Building and aligning standards-based assessment
Test anxiety and the brain
Teacher-made tests
State and national assessments
Tests for multiple intelligences
Performance tasks
Teacher observations and student self-assessment
Building and using rubrics
Building aligned assessments
Assessing the assessments
Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
Bibliography and index

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761931232
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2003
Page Count: 136
Publication date: March 19, 2014

Price: $23.95

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The state-of-the-art guide to research-based student assessment

How do teachers know that students know? Donna Tileston's innovative guide to building brain-compatible assessments can help every teacher identify and enhance student understanding. Topics covered:

Building and aligning standards-based assessment
Test anxiety and the brain
Teacher-made tests
State and national assessments
Tests for multiple intelligences
Performance tasks
Teacher observations and student self-assessment
Building and using rubrics
Building aligned assessments
Assessing the assessments
Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
Bibliography and index

Author(s)

Donna E. Walker Tileston

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin's bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

Vocabulary Pre-Test

1. Making Decisions About Assessment

2. Identifying and Enhancing Student Understanding

3. Formats for Teacher Made Tests

4. Testing for Intelligence

5. Performance Tasks

6. Using a Matrix or Rubric

7. Building Aligned Assessments

8. State and National Assessments

Glossary

Vocabulary Post-Test

Bibliography

Index

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