Developing performance-based assessments : grades K-5 /: grades K-5. ([2009?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nancy P. Gallavan.
• Authors: Gallavan, Nancy P
• Contents: Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; 1. Examining the Many Purposes of Assessment; Demystify Performance-Based Assessments; Understand the Six Components of Assessment; Picture the Continuous Flow of Assessment; Know the Reasons for Selecting Your Assessments; Extend With Questions and Activities; 2. Planning Assessments to Promote Understanding; Use Formal and Informal Assessments; Become a Data-Driven Teacher; Understand Assessment Principles and Practices; Watch for Common Errors in Assessing; Visualize the Overall Process; Extend With Questions and Activities; 3. Collecting Baseline Data for Preassessments; Set Three Goals to Guide Your Preassessments; Question Each of the Six Components of Assessment; Keep Anecdotal Records; Follow These Guidelines as You Preassess; Realize That Assessment Is a Continuous Process; Extend With Questions and Activities; 4. Aligning Appropriate Formative Assessments; Consider the Six Components of Assessment; Design Your Curriculum; Align Assessments With Curriculum and Instruction; Explore Cognition Via Patterns of Thought; Plan With Competence and Confidence; Extend With Questions and Activities; 5. Incorporating Learning, Assigning Instruction Followed by Feedback and Correction; Assign Your Instruction and Activities; Employ Multiple Instructional Strategies; Consider These Assessment Recommendations; Include All Kinds of Questions With Your Formative Assessments; Optimize the Feedback; Involve Your Learners in the Process; Have Fun With Formative Assessments; Extend With Questions and Activities; 6. Administering Summative Assessments; Connect to the Goals and Components of Assessment; Create Your Summative Assessments; Prepare Learners for Summative Assessments; Set Your Sights on the Five As; Continue the Assessment Cycle; Extend With Questions and Activities; 7. Identifying What to Assess: Inviting the Five Types of Inquiry and Information; Introduce the Five Types of Inquiry; Balance Three Conditions With Five Types of Inquiry; Delve Into Responses; Enhance Variety in Your Inquiries; Include All Types of Thinking, Acting, and Feeling; Extend With Questions and Activities; 8. Analyzing How to Assess: Applying the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication; Analyze the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication; Implement Assessments Purposefully; Develop Appraisals to Showcase Learning; Extend With Questions and Activities; 9. Creating Assessment Templates and Rubrics; Construct the Assessment Template; Build Rubrics; Let Your Templates and Rubrics Do the Work for You; Extend With Questions and Activities; 10. Conducting Evaluations and Accountability; Evaluate Accomplishments; Account for Progress; Concentrate on Your Effectiveness; Develop a Performance-Based Assessment Mindset; Extend With Questions and Activities; References and Readings; Index;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 372.127; Educational tests and measurements -- United States; Competency-based educational tests -- United States; School children -- Rating of -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452212654; 1452212651
• Related ISBNs: 9781412966085; 9781412966092
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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