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ERIC ED423253: Improving Classroom Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Developers (Toolkit 98).

This Toolkit is a guide to assessing student achievement and making students partners in the educational enterprise by clearly defining expectations for performance and letting students in on them. It is essentially about performance-based instruction and the role of student assessment in guiding and invigorating practice. This volume, Volume I, contains text and professional development training activities organized into four chapters. The first chapter, "Standards-Based Assessment--Nurturing Learning," reviews current thinking about standards-based instruction and the role of ongoing assessment. Chapter 2, "Integrating Assessment with Instruction," helps the reader understand the various ways that the development and use of assessment can affect and enhance instruction. The emphasis is on performance assessment. Chapter 3, "Designing High Quality Assessments," provides a summary and analysis of current alternative assessment efforts and when to use various designs. In Chapter 4, "Grading and Reporting--A Closer Look," why, whether, and how to grade students is explored. Each chapter contains an introduction that defines its goals, an outline of content, and an index of the profes

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