educational tests and measurements

Presents more than sixty tools designed to help teachers at any grade level develop an effective formative assessment process that will help them focus on learning goals, evaluate current work in relation to those goals, and reach those goals.

"In many public schools, students are spending up to 28 percent of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this year, the introduction of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 45 states will bring an unprecedented level of new, more difficult, and longer mandatory tests to nearly every classroom in the nation up to five times a year--forcing our national testing obsession to a crisis point. Taxpayers are spending extravagant money on these tests--up to $1.4 billion per year--and excessive tests are stunting children's spirits, adding stress to family life, and slowly killing our country's future competitiveness. Yet even so, we still want our kids to score off the charts on every test they take, in elementary school and beyond. And there will be a lot of them. This book is an exploration of that dilemma, and a strategy for how to solve it"--.

Explains the fundamentals of the results only learning environment that allows students to demonstrate mastery learning on their own terms without constraint.

Provides an overview of five types of formative assessment, offers strategies for using them in secondary science classes, and includes case studies and templates.

Shows the teacher how to create authentic, dynamic, fluid. and formative assessments. The tri-assessment model promotes a combination of traditional, portfolio, and performance methods to ensure an accurate assessment of growth and development in every student.

For anyone who's ever wanted to read faster, understand more, and test higher.