Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers

Highly recommended by a classics professor involved in the "teaching communities" um, idea. Personally, I found it worthless: suggestions for assessment methods, not backed up by research. In short, a cookbook. The recommender agreed that it was not scholarly research but rather a how-to. If you are inclined to trust ed research, I suppose you might get something out of it.

This is an excellent toolkit for student learning assessment. I return to it again and again for new ideas to assess student learning; new ways give new information.

The book features fifty valuable Classroom Assessment Techniques, each presented in a format that provides an estimate of the ease of use, a concise description, step-by-step procedures for adapting an administering the technique, practical advice on how to analyze the data, pros and cons, caveats, and other useful information. The techniques are cross-indexed so that faculty can easily locate the appropriate techniques for assessing their particular teaching goals in their academic discipline.