Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing
by Grant P. Wiggins
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Now in paperback! "The most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise available on theimperative to change the ways we test and assess studentperformance...it will become a major reference work for supportersof student-centered assessment." --Educational Leadership "A 'must' book for the on-going debate on American schoolreform." --Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools What is assessment and how does testing differ from it? Why areperformance tests, by themselves, not an show more adequate system of studentassessment? How might we better "test our tests" beyond currenttechnical standards? And why won't increased national testing offerthe accountability of schools we so sorely need? In AssessingStudent Performance, Grant P. Wiggins explores these questions andclarifies the limits of testing in an assessment system. Heanalyzes problematic practices in test design and formats thatprevent students from explaining their answers. By showing us thatassessment is more than testing and intellectual performance ismore than right answers, Wiggins leads us to new systems ofassessment that more closely examine students' habits of mind andprovide teachers and policy makers with more useful and crediblefeedback. show lessTags
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This excellent book argues that students should be assessed in more naturalistic ways in to do so by comparing their work to examples of mature work. Thus instead of being judged out of 100% of their grade level, they should be judged out of a smaller percentage of mature achievement. The standards that students are compared to should also be made visible, just as student can see how fast an athlete can run or how far they can throw and begin to gauge their own progress.
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Grant P. Wiggins is the president and director of programs for the Center on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure (CLASS), a nonprofit educational research and consulting organization in Pennington, New Jersey.
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 371.264 — Society, government, & culture Education Schools and their activities; special education School organization; School records Assessment
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- LB3051 .W494 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education School administration and organization School management and discipline Educational tests, measurements, evaluations
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