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Wiggins, director of the Pennington, NJ Center on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure (CLASS), challenges schools to adopt a different type of student assessment than the one-shot audit tests generally used. He has developed his system-jolting vision of educative assessment grounded in authentic tasks enabling students to self-correct their ongoing performance. Assessment particulars include: the essential elements, rubric design, applications, and implications. Includes sample forms and a bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Wiggins makes the most convincing case yet that school-based assessment should aim mainly to improve, rather than to audit, student performance. Thanks to his penetrating discussions of feedback, the relationship of formal designs to practice, teaching for understanding, and rubrics, this book should dispel common misconceptions and elevate both the understanding and practice of authentic assessment? 'Fred M. Newmann, professor of curriculum and instruction, University of Wisconsin , Madison Assessing Student Performance laid out the theoretical foundations of a new assessment system that provides a more authentic picture of student capabilities than standardized testing. In Assessment for Excellence, Grant Wiggins provides guidance on how to design performance-based assessments for use in the classroom. This book covers all aspects of assessment design, including how to craft performance tasks that meet rigorous educational standards, how to score assessments fairly, and how to structure and judge student portfolios. It also looks at how performance assessment can be used to improve curriculum and instruction, grading and reporting?and teacher accountability.
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