Planning and Implementing Assessment

Author: Freeman, Richard, and Roger Lewis
Publisher: Kogan Page, London
ISBN: 0749420863
Table of Contents: Part 1: Principles of assessment
ch. 1 The purposes of assessment
ch. 2 Norm- and cirterion-referenced, and ipsative, or self-referenced, assessment
ch. 3 Reliability and validity
ch. 4 Assessment modes and sources
ch. 5 Assessment criteria
ch. 6 Feedback
ch. 7 The proactive learner
ch. 8 Describing the learning

Part 2: The methods toolbox
ch. 9 Methods and their characteristics
ch. 10 Choosing methods

Part 3: Sources of assessment
ch. 11 Self-assessment
ch. 12 Peer assessment
ch. 13 Using computers in assessment

Part 4: Using assessment methods
ch. 14 Objective tests
ch. 15 Short answer questions
ch. 16 Exams and tests
ch. 17 Extended written work
ch. 18 Assessment of oral work and class presentation
ch. 19 Performance tests
ch. 20 Projects
ch. 21 Assessing problem solving

Part 5: Recording and reporting
ch. 22 Recording, collecting and presenting evidence
ch. 23 Reporting Achievement
ch. 24 Portfolios

Part 6: Assessment issues
ch. 25 Helping learners prepare for assessment
ch. 26 Marking group work
ch. 27 Workload
ch. 28 Cheating, fairness, bias
ch. 29 Making changes

Glossary
Index

The authors provide a set of timeless principles and analytical methods that can be adapted to a variety of assessment scenarios, and which individual teachers can use to construct their own effective methods for assessment. They provide college, university teachers, and faculty development staff with clear guidelines for design, and methods of planning, choosing and implementing assessment. (From the Publisher)

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