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Overview
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"The most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise available on the imperative to change the ways we test and assess student performance...it will become a major reference work for supporters of student-centered assessment."
—Educational Leadership
"A 'must' book for the on-going debate on American school reform."
—Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools
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.
Synopsis
The nation&39;s leading expert on student assessment argues convincingly for reform of our testing systems and presents a thoughtful approach for designing assessments that are fair, reliable and valid. This book offers a new paradigm in assessment design and implementation, which focuses on the premise that assessment should aim to improve student performance, not merely audit it.
Booknews
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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)