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It is okay but lacks in some areas
Overall the book is good for people who need a starting point. It does not provide enough detail concerning how to use what they give you. The authors are also too selective in their process of identifying assessments for inclusion in their book.

Great resource
With the expectations of RTI and tiered teaching, this book has proven to be a life-saver in identifying individual student weaknesses in an effort to keep them from falling through the cracks.

Helps you understand the diagnostician
This book provides a breakdown of what kind of assessments you can use to pinpoint problems in student's reading instruction. Good for understanding diagnostician's "jargon" sometimes. Puts everything in laymans terms.

Assessment for Reading Instruction
I loved the first edition, and this one is so much better.What a great resource to help teachers determine where the difficulty lies with a struggling reader. ... Read more

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A hands-on guide for anyone who teaches writing to students with learning disabilities

This valuable resource helps teachers who want to sharpen their skills in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities. The classroom-tested, research-proven strategies offered in this book work with all struggling students who have difficulties with writing-even those who have not been classified as learning disabled.The book offers a review of basic skills-spelling, punctuation, and capitalization-and includes instructional strategies to help children who struggle with these basics. The authors provide numerous approaches for enhancing student performance in written expression. They explore the most common reasons students are reluctant to write and offer helpful suggestions for motivating them.

Includes a much-needed guide for teaching and assessing writing skills with children with learning disabilities

• Contains strategies for working with all students that struggle with writing
• Offers classroom-tested strategies, helpful information, 100+ writing samples with guidelines for analysis, and handy progress-monitoring charts
• Includes ideas for motivating reluctant writers
• Mather is an expert in the field of learning disabilities and is the best-selling author of Essentials of Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement Assessment

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A Masterful Resource
Mather, Wendling, and Roberts have done a masterful job of creating this comprehensive resource for the assessment and remediation of the difficulties of the struggling writer.The authors use clear, accurate, and precise language to present overviews of the separate components of written language followed by techniques for informally assessing the difficulties the struggling writer reveals in his/her writing.They then follow this clear understanding of the problem with instructional plans that address the specific weaknesses.All of this is illustrated with real examples from real students.This is a must-have desk reference for all professionals and parents who work with developing writers.If I were Oprah, I would have the authors on the show and place this book under each seat.

Must have for teachers of writing!!
This book is an invaluable resource to anyone who is working with struggling writers. Not only does it address critical assessment questions in a clear and logical manner, but it also provides practical suggestions for intervention. Because the authors don't presume the reader has much background, this book is appropriate and useful to beginning teachers. However, because of the wealth of activites, the book is equally useful to experieinced instructors. It is a must-have for anyone who wants to assist struggling writers.

Acclaim for Writing Assessment
In their book, Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, the authors have provided a thorough approach to assessment and remediation for those students who find writing a formidable challenge. Not only does this text address the reason for referral question for psychologists, neuropsychologists, teachers and diagnosticians, it also takes on the important next step, answering the "so what?" or the "so what are we going to do about it?" question for remediation.It should have wide appeal to parents who home-school their children, parents who assist in their child's homework, regular education teachers in writing lesson plans and special education teachers who write goals and objectives in written expression. As a school psychologist with 35 years of experience, I find this text is a much needed resource that I will use and recommend for assessments and remedial strategies in my practice. As special educators, may we be forever mindful of the promise for struggling writers by the quote of Richard Bach: "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
With every good wish, Marshall Andrew Glenn, Ph.D., NCSP, American Board School-Neuropsychology, Oklahoma City University

Excellent Resource for School Psychs and Special Educators Alike
Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities is a comprehensive and practical look at improving written language for all students.The instructional ideas cover every aspect of written language that a student may have difficulty with including handwriting, spelling, usage, vocabulary, and text structure.As a school psychologist, I find this text to be extremely useful in writing recommendations that are both realistic for classroom use and tailored to an individual student's needs.In addition, I found the chapters on assessment of writing to be especially helpful in taking my assessment of a student's skills beyond a Standard Score to a deeper level of analysis that pinpoints the areas in which a student struggles or excels the most.I would highly recommend this book to anyone who works with struggling writers!

Invaluable for every teacher's toolbox of resources
Mather, Wendling and Roberts have written an invaluable writing assessment and instruction resource manual for teachers. As a 20 year special education teacher, I often struggled with how to effectively and efficiently assess written language skills in my students to yield valuable information to inform instruction. As a university professor teaching assessment and intervention coursework to pre-service teachers, I prepare teachers who face the same dilemma in a context of increasing awareness of research-based interventions. Mather and her colleagues have developed a manual that guides K-12 teachers from the foundations of written language and handwriting, to assessment, accommodations, and research based interventions for students struggling with written language.Timely, informative, and accessible for undergraduate students and teachers alike - this book will be one of the required texts in my literacy assessment and intervention courses and is a must for every literacy teacher's toolbox of instructional resources.

Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities (Jossey-Bass Teacher)

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Written by recognized experts in the field, Assessment Planning for CLD Students details effective classroom assessment practices for and usefully organizes recommended strategies around the four critical dimensions of the CLD student biography. 

This classroom-ready resource intentionally focuses on those classroom assessment practices that will prove effective with CLD students and useful to preK-12 teachers of those students.  Unlike its competitors, the book begins and ends with practical assessment strategies for each of the four critical dimensions of the CLD student biography:  the sociocultural, linguistic, academic, and cognitive dimensions.

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Accommodations
The book I received was in so-so shape. The cover was torn at the bottom and pretty well worn and used. It did come fairly quickly in the mail

Assessment Accommodations for Classroom Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
The book arrived quickly and in good condition. For me, the speed of the shipping is most important. This was great.
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This book provides prospective and current teachers with a concise, non-technical and practical guide to conducting a full range of high-quality classroom assessments. The text emphasizes assessment in the context of the realities of teaching and teacher decision-making, as well as on how assessment is integrated with instruction. Assessment methods are integrated with instruction and presented according to when teachers evaluate students (before, during, and after an instructional unit) and the learning targets that are measured. There is considerable emphasis on the nature of learning targets and how different assessments are most appropriate for different targets. For each assessment technique, suggestions for effective practice are presented with examples and case studies.There are separate chapters on contemporary assessment techniques and issues, such as performance and portfolio assessments, as well as separate chapters on assessing affective targets and students with disabilities included in the regular classroom.A balance is provided with traditional forms of assessment and the need for teachers to administer, interpret, and use results from standards-based large scale assessments and other standardized tests. ... Read more

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Excellent overall coverage of classroom assessment and assessment design
Well written and understandable for a beginning or experienced teacher.Useful as a professional staff development resource.

Very useful material
Although this book was not one of the recommended text for my classroom assessment course, I purchased it nevertheless.I have not been disappointed as it has greatly assisted me with my work as a resource book.The information is clear and simple to read and follow and the price wasn't too bad at all.I would definitely recommend this text as a user friendly beginner assessment publication. ... Read more

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Written for future teachers and experienced educators, Classroom Assessment for Students in Special and General Education, second edition provides the skills needed to effectively use assessment, particularly informal assessment, in understanding the needs of the whole student.  The primary book on classroom assessment procedures is now revised with the latest in authentic, curriculum and performance-based assessment measures with direct connections to instruction, IEP development, and reporting to parents. The focus is on providing teachers with a variety of assessment procedures, the why, what and how of testing, directions on how to construct, administer, score, interpret, graph, monitor, write, and report assessment results.  General K-12 Inservice Teachers.

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Perfect!
I received this product exactly how it was described to me. It was just perfect! Thank you so much!

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I really haven't had the time to check it out, but it was sent on time.

Assessment
Very good reference for classroom assessment in general and special education. Updated and recently published in compliance with NCLB and IDEA 2004. ... Read more

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The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning. ... Read more

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This practical resource book will familiarize teachers, staff developers, and administrators with the latest thinking on alternatives to traditional assessment. It will prepare them to implement authentic assessment in the ESL/bilingual classroom and to incorporate it into instructional planning. ... Read more

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Good overview
This was one of the required books that I had purchased many years ago for my graduate studies in English.I remember finding it helpful as a new teacher in planning authentic assessment for my classes.The book explains various ways to assess students outside of the typical pen and paper style testing.Being a relatively new teacher myself at the time, it was a good book to explore different approaches to finding out a student's needs and knowledge.

The text is simple enough to read, and includes a description of possible activities for each of the language skills .There are short research justifications and references provided in the summary as well as a lot of examples to get new teachers started. Although many of the ideas can be applied to adult education, the examples are primarily for use in an ESL K-12 setting.Still, the book provides a good basis for new teachers to develop assessments in many situations.

Overall, I would recommend this book for teachers that are just starting out and have no idea about how to assess their students. Seasoned teachers that are looking for new ways to assess their students may also be intersted in this book.Adult educators and experienced teachers would probably find another book to be more beneficial.

Great Assessment Ideas
Very informative and easy to follow.The reproducibles are great, and gave a lot of great ideas.I especially liked the self-assessment part and the writing assessment chapter - very helpful!

Excellent resource!
This book is definitely a great resource to have as a teacher of ELL students.It covers all the areas necessary to provide better instruction.Lots of self-assessments to help students know where they are and where they need to go.

easy read
This book is a fairly easy read.However, so far it has been more about authentic assessment than how to assess English Language Learners.Also, there are some editing mistakes that drive me crazy!This would be a good resource if you wanted to know about using portfolios or other forms of authentic assessment.

Great Book
I find that the information it contains supports most of what I believe in assessing students in the classroom. ... Read more

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This is a second edition of this classic text on language testing. Over the years the first edition has established itself as a core text on many ESL teacher training programs. There is no other text that is as comprehensive and accessible as Testing for Language Teachers. All of the chapters for this second edition have been revised and updated. It also has new chapters on tests for young learners and testing overall ability, as well as new and accessible appendices on statistical analysis and item banking. No other book on language testing covers the areas that all language teachers need to know when testing their students' language skills. ... Read more

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good
The book was in good condition just as described.
The shipment took a little longer than I expected, but still in the range ofclaim.

An Excellent Resource for Practicing Teachers
It seems that a lot of books in the market on testing deal with the theoretical background of designing large scale tests on the institutional level.Those sorts of books are not so useful for the practicing teacher who is looking for a little guidance on improving their test writing skills for daily classes.This book is written with that teacher in mind.It doesn't overload the reader with loads of statistics, but if you are interested in the statistical basis of the ideas presented in this book, there is a section on statistics in the appendix.

Basically, this book is divided into three sections.The first section covers the different types of test a teacher might want to give and the differences between those types.The second part delves into the theory of validity and realiability, but doesn't overwhelm the reader with loads of numbers and figures.The third part goes into how to test different skills.The attitude the author takes toward testing is that a test should focus on one of the four basic skills:speaking, reading, writing, or listening.Grammar and vocabulary, he claims, are not ends in themselves, but merely components of the four basic skills, so they don't need to be given much emphasis in testing.I thought that was an interesting idea.

If you're a teacher looking for a book to help you with your test writing skills, I can recommend this one. ... Read more

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Gregory MichieÂ’s first bestseller, Holler If You Hear Me, put him on the map as a compelling and passionate voice in urban education. In his new book, Michie turns his attention to young teachers of color, and once again provides readers with a unique and penetrating look inside public school classrooms. Featuring portraits of five young teachers (two African Americans, two Latinas, and one Asian American) who are "working for change," Michie weaves the teachersÂ’ powerful voices with classroom vignettes and his own experiences. Along the way, he examines what motivates and sustains these teachers, as well as what they see as the challenges and possibilities of public education ... Read more

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See you When You Get there Review
It's such a great book, I have to read it for class, but if it wasn't required to read, I would definitely read it on my own. I recommend this book.

Must-read for teachers in urban schools
I have been blessed with the privilege of taking a class/workshop with Michie and am just as invigorated by this book as his class.This book profiles the experiences, both good and bad, appropriate and inappropriate of teachers in urban schools.From the beginning, Michie acknowledges and addresses criticisms of his previous writings as well as discusses his intellectual struggle with the fact the he is/was a middle-class white man teaching poor, urban children of color.He also recognizes that this book is written from his perspective and therefore is filtered through his eyes rather than the teachers (though he tried to free it from his personal reflection as much as possible and just "show" these teachers in real world situations).His goal is not to profile five "good" or "star" teachers, just five real teachers struggling to teach for change, struggling to help their students change their lives and worlds.
This book showed me that even "good" teachers (I think they're all good teachers in this book, but that's just me) screw up.Even good teachers have bad days.All urban teachers, particularly new teachers, especially ones who teach against the status-quo and push their students to think critically about everything they read about and learn about, sometimes fall.But they have moments of triumph as well.They have moments where students go above and beyond expectations, and moments where they see just how much these "ghetto" or "low-achieving" students know about their world.
This book gave me hope and ignited a new fire in me.I hope it inspires you just as much.

Wonderful book for teachers and students
Michie is one of the few educators out there that consistently crafts his writing with such care, compassion, and insight.I really enjoyed reading this book.I think that as teachers we need to read our narratives and see them in a practical public forum, like Michie provides, instead of just an academic policy chart.Michie's writing is consistently reflectively and engaging.I highly recommend this book to anyone in the teaching profession, or the academic world.

Don't waste your time
This is the dumbest book I have ever had rammed down my throat. This book claimes to be advocating change to public, high-needs schools but all it really shows is the class envy of a bunch of mindless liberals. The problem with people like Michie is they have been away from the real classroom for too long. They get too involved in there higher education indoctrination that they forget what it is like to be a real public school teacher. Michie, like others who indoc higher ed., live in a dream world and they think their "progressive ideas" are going to improve public education when in fact all it does is put our children in deeper trouble. My warning to you is if you have to read this book keep in mind that there is a bias against anything with common sense. Just as important, "progressive ideas" will only make our children "feel good" and will never improve the quality of their education. Maybe Michie's next book will be "We lied to you. How liberal teacher education programs are out of touch and a waste of time." ... Read more

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There's no one way to assess student learning. And as the cries for accountability continue to increase, it's absolutely essential that we be acquainted with all the different assessment tools available to us. Put to the Test puts these tools at your disposal.

Put to the Test is an all-in-one resource for detailed explanations of the full range of assessment techniques that effectively monitor learning. It provides not only step-by-step procedures for a standards-based approach to classroom assessment, but also lots of different strategies for aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment. You'll discover everything you need to know about the development and use of:

• performance tasks
• scoring guides
• interviews
• observations
• selected-response test items
• portfolios.

Preservice and inservice teachers, principals, and staff developers will welcome the book's practicality. School administrators will find it an excellent resource to guide and support teachers who are looking for effective assessment systems. ... Read more

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Put to the Test:Tools & Techniques for Classroom Assessment
This is an extremely valuable book for me.It gives great information on constructing testsand other assessments for my classroom.I use it a lot. ... Read more

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There's no one way to assess student learning. And as the cries for accountability continue to increase, it's absolutely essential that we be acquainted with all the different assessment tools available to us. Put to the Test puts these tools at your disposal.

Put to the Test is an all-in-one resource for detailed explanations of the full range of assessment techniques that effectively monitor learning. It provides not only step-by-step procedures for a standards-based approach to classroom assessment, but also lots of different strategies for aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment. You'll discover everything you need to know about the development and use of:

• performance tasks
• scoring guides
• interviews
• observations
• selected-response test items
• portfolios.

Preservice and inservice teachers, principals, and staff developers will welcome the book's practicality. School administrators will find it an excellent resource to guide and support teachers who are looking for effective assessment systems. ... Read more

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Put to the Test:Tools & Techniques for Classroom Assessment
This is an extremely valuable book for me.It gives great information on constructing testsand other assessments for my classroom.I use it a lot. ... Read more

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This practical resource helps elementary classroom, remedial reading, and LD teachers make the best possible informal assessment of a child's specific reading, writing, and spelling strengths and weaknesses and attitudes toward reading.

Written in easy-to-follow nontechnical language, it provides a multitude of tested informal assessment strategies and devices, such as "kid watching," retellings, journals, IRIs, writing surveys, portfolios, think alouds and more— including more than 200 reproducible assessment devices ready for immediate use!

You'll find a detailed description of each informal assessment techniques along with step-by-step procedures for its use and, wherever possible, one or more reproducible sample devices. Complete answer keys for each device are included with the directions.

Among the unique topics covered are the innovative Individual Reading Inventory, San Diego Quick Assessment List, El Paso Phonics Survey, QAD Chart, Holistic scoring of writing and Reproducible devices for portfolio assessment.

In short, Alternative Assessment Techniques for Reading and Writing offers a wealth of tested, ready-to-use informal assessment information and devices that should save the teacher a great deal of time and energy in making a useful assessment of any student's literacy ability! ... Read more

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Alternative Assessment Techniques: Reading and Writing
The product I received was in excellent condition and arrived at my house in a timely manner.I was very pleased with the sender because they contacted me via email to let me know that they had sent the package in the mail shortly after it was purchased.Less than a week after purchase, I received my book in better condition than I expected for a great price.

Great Ideas To Put to Use
Well worth the purchase.I am using this one already and will continue to do so.
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An engaging examination of current issues and practices involved in assessing young children

A highly readable integration of the latest assessment practices and policies, this text includes valuable information regarding young children with special needs and English language learners-topics that are insufficiently addressed in other assessment texts. Focusing on practical applications of key concepts, Multifaceted Assessment for Early Childhood Education provides a knowledge base of what every early childhood teacher should know about assessing young children.

Key Features

• Comprehensive coverage examines the full range of assessments, including formative, summative, authentic, and standardized.
• Cases in Point provide practical implications and examples from real life.
• Objectives for Learning alert students as to central concepts and provide guidance for reading and studying.
• Discussion Questions encourage analysis and class discussions, promoting higher order thinking on the topics.

Ancillaries
Password-protected instructor resources, available at www.sagepub.com/wrightinstr, feature PowerPoint slides, a test bank, Internet resources, and additional activities.

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Gregory MichieÂ’s first bestseller, Holler If You Hear Me, put him on the map as a compelling and passionate voice in urban education. In his new book, Michie turns his attention to young teachers of color, and once again provides readers with a unique and penetrating look inside public school classrooms. Featuring portraits of five young teachers (two African Americans, two Latinas, and one Asian American) who are "working for change," Michie weaves the teachersÂ’ powerful voices with classroom vignettes and his own experiences. Along the way, he examines what motivates and sustains these teachers, as well as what they see as the challenges and possibilities of public education ... Read more

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See you When You Get there Review
It's such a great book, I have to read it for class, but if it wasn't required to read, I would definitely read it on my own. I recommend this book.

Must-read for teachers in urban schools
I have been blessed with the privilege of taking a class/workshop with Michie and am just as invigorated by this book as his class.This book profiles the experiences, both good and bad, appropriate and inappropriate of teachers in urban schools.From the beginning, Michie acknowledges and addresses criticisms of his previous writings as well as discusses his intellectual struggle with the fact the he is/was a middle-class white man teaching poor, urban children of color.He also recognizes that this book is written from his perspective and therefore is filtered through his eyes rather than the teachers (though he tried to free it from his personal reflection as much as possible and just "show" these teachers in real world situations).His goal is not to profile five "good" or "star" teachers, just five real teachers struggling to teach for change, struggling to help their students change their lives and worlds.
This book showed me that even "good" teachers (I think they're all good teachers in this book, but that's just me) screw up.Even good teachers have bad days.All urban teachers, particularly new teachers, especially ones who teach against the status-quo and push their students to think critically about everything they read about and learn about, sometimes fall.But they have moments of triumph as well.They have moments where students go above and beyond expectations, and moments where they see just how much these "ghetto" or "low-achieving" students know about their world.
This book gave me hope and ignited a new fire in me.I hope it inspires you just as much.

Wonderful book for teachers and students
Michie is one of the few educators out there that consistently crafts his writing with such care, compassion, and insight.I really enjoyed reading this book.I think that as teachers we need to read our narratives and see them in a practical public forum, like Michie provides, instead of just an academic policy chart.Michie's writing is consistently reflectively and engaging.I highly recommend this book to anyone in the teaching profession, or the academic world.

Don't waste your time
This is the dumbest book I have ever had rammed down my throat. This book claimes to be advocating change to public, high-needs schools but all it really shows is the class envy of a bunch of mindless liberals. The problem with people like Michie is they have been away from the real classroom for too long. They get too involved in there higher education indoctrination that they forget what it is like to be a real public school teacher. Michie, like others who indoc higher ed., live in a dream world and they think their "progressive ideas" are going to improve public education when in fact all it does is put our children in deeper trouble. My warning to you is if you have to read this book keep in mind that there is a bias against anything with common sense. Just as important, "progressive ideas" will only make our children "feel good" and will never improve the quality of their education. Maybe Michie's next book will be "We lied to you. How liberal teacher education programs are out of touch and a waste of time." ... Read more

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This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbook offers teachers at all levels of experience detailed, how-to advice on classroom assessment--from what it is and how it works to planning, implementing, and analyzing assessment projects. The authors illustrate their approach through twelve case studies that detail the real-life classroom experiences of teachers carrying out successful classroom assessment projects.

The book features fifty classroom assessment techniques, each including a concise description; step-by-step procedures for administering the technique; practical advice on how to analyze the data; pros, cons, and caveats; and more.

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Opinion of Classroom Assessment Techniques
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) is a great resource for K-12 teachers and university faculty. The authors provide a variety of quick, user friendly assessments to be used in minutes in order to assess student learning in a classroom environment. I used several with my university pre-service teachers. They were impressed and used them in their classrooms.

A very useful work
I was first introduced to this work while studying for my MS in Curriculum & Instruction at PSU.Although it is entitled "A Handbook for College Teachers," I have found applications for the assessment techniques at all levels that I have taught, ranging K-Adult Ed. This is also one of the most cited works on my assessment website: www.rubrics4assessment.net

Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
This is our second order of the book.It is used by our Tablet Users Group faculty members.We have had Thomas Angelo as a speaker at Rose-Hulman and were very pleased by him and his work. We would highly recommend Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. The book has been very well received and helpful teaching, evaluating & assessing classroom techniques.

Classroom assessment
The book arrived in perfect condition, even though it was listed as used. Arrived on time.

50 CATs-- one WILL work for you
This book is a handbook-style text that elaborates on the concept of "Classroom Assessment Techniques," a term used by the authors to refer to alternative methods of evaluating or assessing student learning.The book is a handbook because each "CAT" is listed in terms of how to prepare, use, and evaluate results; the authors also present rather subjective indicants of the amount of time required for each technique.

The techniques range from the laughably simple (such as "muddiest point") to the more involved (such as student learning portfolios); the handbook is arranged in terms of types of assessment that may be conducted with each group of techniques.The book provides a wide variety of techniques, and the user should be able to find several applicable techniques for a particular educational situation.

However, I would strongly suggest that anyone using these techniques NOT rely on this text as the sole source of how and why to do educational assessment and evaluation -- the field is too complex and the implications are too important. ... Read more

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These 75 specific techniques help K–12 science teachers determine students’ understanding of key concepts. ... Read more

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The Bible for Formative Assessment
I don't know why this is tagged as "Science".Except for a couple of assessments that are specific to data analysis, this book is a gold mine of assessments that can be used in any classroom.The assessments can be done with few materials (no using your ticks to copy 150 worksheets!), are clearly explained and are relatively quick to use while still giving you clear feedback on what the students know.The assessments are varied enough that you can find ones that are great for the very beginning of the unit, in the middle and as the students approach mastery.What makes this book really worth the price, though, is the first few chapters where Keeley explains how best to use formative assessment and why formative assessment is so necessary for student learning. The other teacher who put me onto this book and I agree that we now have a much clearer understanding on the role formative assessment, when used deliberately, has on student achievement. This book should be required for all teachers--and the principals who are assessing them! (And seriously, don't skip the first chapters!)

Absolutely Awesome!
I *love, love, love* this book!I've taken it to many teacher conferences over the past two months, and others who have it have raved about it at all.This is a MUST HAVE for all science teachers, novice and veteran.If I was a science coordinator, I would buy it for all of the teachers in my department - it's just that good.Many of the assessments can be adapted for other content areas.If you're looking for a gift for a teacher, science or otherwise, this is a gift that will be used over and over again!

Science Formative Assessment
Excellent material with great ideas to implement with my students to help see how well they have learned a topic.

Fantastic resource!
I LOVE this book!We were not assigned a textbook for my General Methods class in my certification program, and I wanted a resource of my own as a "go to" guide for choosing different activities for my classes, and this is definitely the book to get!! Each activity listed in the book has a clear description, gives the rationale as to when and why you should implement each method, and even better HOW to implement it.I was so taken with this book that I brought it to class to share with my professor and classmates, and my professor even showed interest in purchasing it! If you're looking to (or already) teaching secondary science, in any content area, this is a book you should have.

Very useful for science curriculum and instruction
As the curriculum and instructional director for our school district, I am always on the look-out for good materials.My science faculty have used this book since the first day I added it to my lending library.The feedback for implementation has been very good. ... Read more

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This text is intended for the large group of non-measurement professionals who need to know about creating assessment tools and using them for decision-making. Teachers, administrators, and instructional support personnel will find that this book provides a balanced treatment of design, validation and use of assessment tools for varied learning outcomes and needs. This treatment includes traditional and alternative assessments. The book is straightforward and applied with minimal statistical content. Numerous examples, case studies, tables, figures, and a Web site with chapter highlights and exercises support the applied focus of this book. Psychologists or those involved with educational psychology. ... Read more

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Active Assessment for Active Science meets the needs of teachers faced with the task of assessing hands-on science. ... Read more

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A Resource Worth Having
As an environmental educator I am always looking for new ways to express ecological concepts to children, as well as find evaluative techniques to track the learning of my students. This book introduces useful self-evaluative techniques to help the student track his learning and to chart the future course of inquiry.

Having been familar with George Hein(one of the book's coauthors) as one of the leading constructivist educators in non-traditional environments ( science centers, museums, nature centers, etc), I was interested in the text, and how I might apply it to the after-school enrichment program I am currently conducting.

The book has given me a few new tools to use in the evaluation of the students' learning, and some ability to incorporate those techniques/results in the final analysis to the grant committee, to prove to them that their money was well spent.

Admittedly, some of the techniques employed are better suited to smaller class sizes because of the time they will require to be fully reviewed and evaluated by the teacher.Nevertheless,even considering the added time component, the tools/techniques offered are worth employing because of the "buy in" the students gain in charting their learning/academic future.

Though you may not find every technique applicable to your classroom situation, you may find several that help you benchmark the progress of your students more usefully than standard testing, without completely "bucking the traditional system".

It's a good read, and worth the expense on an educator's budget.

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A scholarly resource of strategies, research, and practical experience in helping students who find writing skills a challenge
Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers: Evidence-Based Practices is an anthology of essays by learned authors about the challenges of helping students in grades K-12 who have difficulties with writing. Essays include "Self-Efficacy and Procrastination in the Writing of Students with Learning Disabilities", "Connecting Reading and Writing Instruction for Struggling Learners", "Teaching Composition to Students with Learning Disabilities: Scientifically Supported Recommendations", and more. An index rounds out this scholarly resource of strategies, research, and practical experience in helping students who find writing skills a challenge to learn.
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Covering universal screening, progress monitoring, and diagnostic assessment for special education, this resource presents a comprehensive overview of assessment for struggling students within RTI. ... Read more