Classroom Assessment Techniques

by Thomas A. Angelo, K. Patricia Cross

This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbook offers teachers at all levels how-to advise on classroom assessment, including: What classroom assessment entails and how it works. How to plan, implement, and analyze assessment projects. Twelve case studies that detail the real-life classroom experiences of teachers carrying out successful classroom assessment projects. Fifty classroom assessment techniques Step-by-step procedures for administering the techniques Practical advice on how to analyze your data Order your copy today.

Genres: Teaching, Education, Nonfiction, Academic, Reference

Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[DWRL Library · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book purports to give ideas on how to get feedback on what, how much, and how well students are learning. Tips include thinking through and assessing your personal teaching goals, and then creating assessments to achieve those ends. Chapter 2 presents a worksheet that helps you to identify the goals most pertinent to your teaching style. As the book points out, you can't know if your students have reached the learning goals you had hoped if you have not clearly articulated your goals at least to yourself. Chapter 3 takes you through the steps of classroom assessment techniques -- evaluation tools that function as "feedback devices."
After glossing classroom assessment, the book then offers 50 different methods for gaining this feedback and evaluating the attainment of goals.
Overall, this book would be helpful to the teacher putting together a 309K course -- it offers a clear way of thinking about the goals of your course. Often, we can get over-excited about our topic in 309K, and forget the learning goals -- this book offers help conceptualizing your course through goals and assessment.
This book offers questions to ask yourself when creating course evaluations, but does not offer hand-outs or examples.

[Aimee Dars · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is packed with examples of classroom assessment techniques--methods to gauge how well students are understanding the material being taught. Each classroom assessment technique described includes the amount of time it takes to prepare and the time needed for the students to complete it. This is a must for college-level teachers, and I'm sure it would be applicable to the high school learning environment as well.

[Vincent Fong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Please read "Discussion As A Way of Teaching Tools And Techniques For Democratic Classrooms 2nd Ed" as the complementary.
Contains 50 exercises with different difficulties and coverages. Comprehensive with real / fiction (convincing!) scenarios.
Though some exercises are less useful - but there are still plenty!!

[Ryan Griffith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unquestionably the best resource on assessing formative learning in the classroom.

[Lisa Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very practical, lots of ideas to tailor to your classroom

[Brad · Rating 5 out of 5]

50 assessment techniques--1 book

They are categorized. Very helpful resource while lesson or unit planning.

B. Grizenko

[giselayvonne · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing, eye-opening book assigned to me by a graduate course. Put into practice throughout the semester, I saw intellectual and personal growth in my students I had never seen, and even an increasing awareness of the need of their participation in our learning community. Without a doubt, this has been my most successful year of chemistry teaching ever and I do believe it had to do with this book.

It was a little intimidating at first, but for those of us secondary teachers who find some of the formative assessment books a little juvenile and therefore, difficult to adapt to more advanced studies, this book, written for university teachers, is easily scaled to the secondary level.

Loving the Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) to suss out individual teaching objectives one holds as a teacher, and love how the whole book is geared towards addressing this quote from the end of the book, "Learning in introductory classes, for example, is often more difficult than learning in advanced courses, because the knowledge framework that organizes the learning is sparse; therefore, students in these courses cannot easily related new learning to old." Highly recommended.

[Shifting Phases · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not what I was looking for. Seems to be well-thought-out and comprehensive, but the academic writing and drawn-out descriptions prevent it from being a fast read, or an effective reference in which I could look up an answer to a particular question.

[Katherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

We are using this book as part of a course on assessment in engineering education. It is a great source for creating and experimenting with formative assessment in the classroom. There are many ideas for assessment in this book which I would not have come across otherwise.

[Instructional Design Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

I marked this book as 'read', but you never really finish reading this book.
Use it as a reference manual for classroom assessment ideas.
Keep in mind that classroom assessment techniques can be adapted for the online classroom.

[ACRL]

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[David]

This has a nice collection of clearly defined techniques, like design patterns.

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tips for classroom activities. Whenever I've got two long hours to fill, I can always find an idea in here.

[Sinistmer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource for assessment activities. Well-organized and breaks down how to use each assessment as well as the pros and cons.

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

USE IT EVERYDAY!

[Rosemary Moore · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good ideas. Worth the time.

[Mooketsi Obert]

is a good book