Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications

by Peter W. Airasian

Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications views classroom assessment as an everyday, ongoing, integral part of teaching, not something that is separated from life in classrooms. The text is thus organized in a manner that follows the natural progression of teacher decision making, from organizing the class as a learning community to planning and conducting instruction to the formal evaluation of learning and, finally, to grading. Classroom Assessment presents complex concepts clearly so that pre-service teachers can understand them, and solidly grounds these concepts in best practice through practical, real, well-integrated examples. The text conceives of classroom assessment in a broader way than many other texts. It focuses not only on the assessment needs of testing, grading, interpreting standardized tests, and performance assessments but also on assessment concerns in organizing a classroom at the start of school, planning and implementing instruction, and strategies of teacher self reflection.

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Jacki · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not going to lie, I didn't like this one. The writing is dry (although if you can write about grading and standardized tests in an exciting way, please tell me) and it just reads like a math textbook. There are some good points in the book, but I just didn't care for it.

[Deb · Rating 1 out of 5]

I will not be adding this to my "teacher" shelf

[Kacey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very informative with some great ideas for teaching.