Art Science Classrm Ass V27 Rp, Vol. 27

"An excellent, well-written, and thorough analysis of the major issues relevant to classroom assessment in higher education."

—Catherine S. Taylor, associate professor of education, University of Washington

Discusses the quality of individual student assessments in higher education courses and their composite effect on course grades. Reviews the literature on making classroom assessments and their impact on the science of student assessment. Such activity requires instructional skill, interest, and a disposition toward clarity and fairness. Brookhart discusses such critical issues and suggests resources for further study.

"An excellent, well-written, and thorough analysis of the major issues relevant to classroom assessment in higher education."

—Catherine S. Taylor, associate professor of education, University of Washington

Discusses the quality of individual student assessments in higher education courses and their composite effect on course grades. Reviews the literature on making classroom assessments and their impact on the science of student assessment. Such activity requires instructional skill, interest, and a disposition toward clarity and fairness. Brookhart discusses such critical issues and suggests resources for further study.

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Summarizes broadly applicable assessment principles to enhance college instruction and feedback about students' achievement through sample analyses, checklists, performance rubrics, essays, and empirical studies about grading in college classrooms. Some of the references are available through the ERIC Document Reproduction Service. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

SUSAN M. BROOKHART is associate professor of education at Duquesne University. The author of more than forty articles on classroom assessment, educational measurement, program evaluation, and professional development for faculty, she is a past chair of AERA's Special Interest Group in Classroom Assessment, chair of the National Council on Measurement in Education's Outreach and Partnerships Committee, and a regular columnist on education and academics for National Forum, the journal of Phi Kappa Phi.