Assessing Student Performance - Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing

Informationen zum Autor GRANT P. WIGGINS is the president and director of programs for the Center on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure (CLASS), a nonprofit educational research and consulting organization in Pennington, New Jersey. Klappentext What is assessment and how does testing differ from it? Why are performance tests, by themselves, not an adequate system of student assessment? How might we better "test our tests" beyond current technical standards? And why won't increased national testing offer the accountability of schools we so sorely need? In "Assessing Student Performance," Grant P. Wiggins explores these questions and clarifies the limits of testing in an assessment system. He analyzes problematic practices in test design and formats that prevent students from explaining their answers. By showing us that assessment is more than testing and intellectual performance is more than right answers, Wiggins leads us to new systems of assessment that more closely examine students' habits of mind and provide teachers and policy makers with more useful and credible feedback. Zusammenfassung The president of the Center on Learning! Assessment! and School Structure (CLASS) expounds on his philosophy of assessment; offers feedback alternatives to traditional invalidly validated testing; and argues that more testing would not increase accountability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Assessment and the Morality of Testing. Assessment Worthy of the Liberal Arts. The Morality of Test Scrutiny. Testing and Tact. Incentives and Assessment. Feedback. Authenticity, Context, and Validity. Accountability: Standards, Not Standardization.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Grant P Wiggins, Grant P. Wiggins
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.09.1999
• EAN: 9780787950477
• ISBN: 978-0-7879-5047-7
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Jossey-Bass Education
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Bildungswesen; EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Education: examinations and assessment, Examinations & assessment