educational tests and measurements

Discusses the role of assessment in effective teaching, and provides practical tools including developmental checklists, rubrics, portfolio guidelines, interview suggestions, self-evaluation profiles, and several others.

In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire future, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test.

Presents a process that schools and districts can use to incorporate local, state, and national standards into their curricula and develop an assessment system.

Discusses good and bad student testing, shows teachers how to construct accurate methods of assessment and use their results to teach, and explains how teachers can protect themselves and students by educating parents, policy makers, and others about what kinds of testing are effective.

Describes the steps that need to be taken in order to create a curriculum map for schools; includes sample maps, essential questions, and other related topics.

Offers advice to teachers on how to build upon, plan, and implement a standards-based curriculum and related performance tasks and assessment rubrics, and discusses the teaching process.

Examines the benefits of collaborative analysis of student work and explains how teachers can set up an effective program within their schools.

Presents guidance, activities, tools, and recommended resources for teachers of grades K-12 on eight points that are key to their effectiveness as teachers: essential questions, curriculum integration for coherence, standards-based curriculum and assessment design, authentic assessment, scoring rubrics, portfolios, reflection, and action research.