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Understanding Instructionally Useful Assessment
Carla Evans,Scott Marion
- 198 pages
- English
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Understanding Instructionally Useful Assessment
Carla Evans,Scott Marion
About This Book
Understanding Instructionally Useful Assessment offers new insights into how various types of assessments, from the state to the classroom, will differ in their usefulness for supporting instructional decision-making and student learning. In order to most effectively serve students, it is essential that educators avoid conflating the assessment information that teachers use for instructional purposes and the data that leaders and administrators use for evaluative or monitoring purposes. This book provides classroom teachers as well as school and district leaders with a clear conception of what makes assessmentsâtheir purpose, design, reporting, and resulting informationâuseful or not for informing instruction and how they can select assessment tools suited to specific purposes. Each chapter addresses the knowledge and skills that K-12 staff need in order to challenge claims made by policymakers, test vendors, or even other educators that any assessment can be used to inform instruction. Educators will come away better prepared to remove unnecessary or redundant assessments from their systems and to create structures, policies, and processes that best support the instructional usefulness of assessments for student learning.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What Is This Book About?
- 1 What Does âInstructionally Usefulâ Assessment Mean?
- 2 Assessment Features that Influence Instructional Usefulness
- 3 The Instructional Usefulness of Formative Assessment
- 4 The Instructional Usefulness of Classroom, School, and District: Summative and Interim Assessments
- 5 The Instructional Usefulness of State Assessments
- 6 Where Do We Go from Here?
- Appendix A: Glossary of Key Terms and Definitions
- Appendix B: Resources on Learning Progressions
- Index