1. The Role of Assessment in Teaching -- 2. Establishing Learning Targets -- 3. Establishing High-Quality Classroom Assessments -- 4. Assessment before Instruction: Learning about Your Students -- 5. Assessing Student Progress during Instruction -- 6. Completion, Short-Answer, and Selected-Response Items: Assessing Knowledge and Simple Understanding -- 7. Selected-Response, Short-Answer, and Essay Items: Assessing Deep Understanding and Reasoning -- 8. Performance Assessments: Assessing Deep Understanding, Reasoning, and Skills -- 9. Portfolios: Assessing Understanding, Reasoning, Skills, and Products -- 10. Assessing Affective Traits and Dispositions -- 11. Assessing Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings -- 12. Grading and Reporting Student Performance -- 13. Administering and Interpreting Standardized tests -- App. A. The Scope of a Teacher's Professional Role and Responsibilities for Student Assessment -- App. B. The Student Evaluation Standards -- App. C. National Content Standards Projects

"Classroom Assessment: Principles and Practice for Effective Instruction, Third Edition, provides prospective and current teachers with a practical guide to conducting a full range of high quality assessments. This book emphasizes assessment in the context of the realities of teaching and teacher decision making, as well as on how assessment is integrated with instruction."--Jacket