What Every Teacher Should Know About Student Assessment

The state-of-the-art guide to research-based student assessment

How do teachers know that students know? Donna Tileston′s innovative guide to building brain-compatible assessments can help every teacher identify and enhance student understanding. Topics covered:

• Building and aligning standards-based assessment
• Test anxiety and the brain
• Teacher-made tests
• State and national assessments
• Tests for multiple intelligences
• Performance tasks
• Teacher observations and student self-assessment        
• Building and using rubrics
• Building aligned assessments
• Assessing the assessments
• Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
• Bibliography and index