Teacher-Made Assessments: How to Connect Curriculum, Instruction, and Student Learning: Third Edition

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Assessment is not only a measure of student learning, but a means to student learning. Teacher-Made Assessments, Third Edition, guides you in constructing and using your own classroom assessments, including tests, quizzes, essays, and performance-based assessments to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. You will learn how to weave together curriculum, instruction, and student learning to make assessment a more natural, useful part of teaching. Find out how to: ◆ ensure your assessments are valid, reliable, and fair; ◆ construct assessments that meet the level of cognitive demand expected of students; ◆ create selected-response items and understand technology-enhanced items now common in assessment; ◆ use constructed-response items and develop scoring criteria such as rubrics; ◆ develop performance assessments that align with more complex learning expectations; and, ◆ analyze student results on assessments and use feedback more effectively with your students. This substanti