• What is it?
• Why do it?
• Four Questions
• Reliability and Validity

• Standards
• Step 1: Identify the Standards
• Standards-based education
• How and why standards..
• Good standards?
• Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy

• Tasks
• Step 2: Select an Authentic Task
• Why people fail to...

• Step 3: Identify the Criteria
• Rubrics
• Step 4: Create the Rubric
• Instructional quality: Collecting credible evidence

• How classroom assessments improve learning
• Feedback interventions...
• Praise can be dangerous
• Doing What Works
• Organizing instruction and study to improve student learning
• 25 learning principles
• Improving working memory?

• Portfolios
• A critique of learning styles
• Lessons learned about student portfolios
• A critique of multiple intelligences

• Why standardized tests don't measure educational quality
• Raising standards through classroom assessment
• Assessing student affect
• Nebraska leaves no child behind
• What should Arne Duncan do?
• Formative assessment: Video quiz
• Why we can't use standardized tests for merit pay

• Constructing Good Tests
• Do tests align with standards?
• Multiple-choice question formats

• Seven practices
• Writing good essay questions
• Rubric for grading larger essays
• Bull and Cow

EXAM 2 / Sharing of Projects