Overview
Practical and engaging, this workbook will help instructors utilize cooperative learning to make their assessments more meaningful and manageable. Meaningful Assessment: A Manageable and Cooperative Process contends that the more skillfully instruction and assessment are interwoven in cooperative learning groups, the more students will learn and the more successful teachers will be. In this friendly and open book, the authors draw on extensive research and experience in order to provide a workbook rich with assessment documents, classroom activities, assignments, self-evaluation sheets, guidelines, questions, and checklists. For pre-service and in-service educators encouraging cooperative learning.
Synopsis
Practical and engaging, this workbook will help instructors utilize cooperative learning to make their assessments more meaningful and manageable.
Meaningful Assessment: A Manageable and Cooperative Process contends that the more skillfully instruction and assessment are interwoven in cooperative learning groups, the more students will learn and the more successful teachers will be. In this friendly and open book, the authors draw on extensive research and experience in order to provide a workbook rich with assessment documents, classroom activities, assignments, self-evaluation sheets, guidelines, questions, and checklists.
For pre-service and in-service educators encouraging cooperative learning.
Booknews
This text is designed primarily for K-12 teachers but could also serve as a resource for teachers in higher education, and for pre-service teachers in education courses. The authors provide a practical guide to making student assessments more meaningful and manageable, and to the use of cooperative learning as an inherent part of the assessment process. Coverage includes such topics goal-setting, testing, student portfolios, student observation, social skills and student attitudes assessment, learning logs and journals, teaching teams, grading, and student involvement in assessment. Both authors are with the U. of Minnesota. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)