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Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance

Book
Wiggins, G.
1998
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
LB3051.W495 1998
Topics: Assessing Students

Additional Info:
In this book, Grant Wiggins outlines design standards for performance-based assessments that promise students - no matter what their ability - clear and worthy performance targets, useful feedback, coaching, and the opportunity to progress toward excellence. Educative Assessment furnishes the information needed to design performance-based assessments, craft performance tasks that meet rigorous educational standards, score assessments fairly, and structure and judge student portfolios. It also shows how performance assessment can be used to improve curriculum and instruction, grading, and reporting, as well as teacher accountability. In addition, the book includes numerous design templates and flowcharts, strategies for design and troubleshooting, and myriad examples of assessment tasks and scoring rubrics that Wiggins has developed and repeatedly refined using feedback from clients in schools, districts, and state departments of education. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
List of Figures
Preface
The Author

ch. 1 Educative Assessment: A Vision
ch. 2 Ensuring Authentic Performance
ch. 3 Providing Ongoing Feedback
ch. 4 Promoting Student Understanding
ch. 5 Standards and Criteria
ch. 6 Individual Performance Tasks
ch. 7 Scoring Rubrics
ch. 8 Portfolio as Evidence
ch. 9 Curriculum and Instruction
ch. 10 Grading and Reporting
ch. 11 Teaching and Accountability
ch. 12 Feasibility: Real and Imagined
ch. 13 Next Steps

Notes
Bibliography
Index
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