Student Assessments

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the topic of assessments for students and looks at the advantages and disadvantages of assessments in classroom situations. The paper specifically reviews "Learning to Teach" by Richard Arends and "Educational Asessment of Students" by Anthony Nitko and Susan Brookhart. The paper provides chapter by chapter summaries of their works that relate to the topic of student assessment.

Table of Contents:
Chapter Summaries
Arends, Richard I. Learning to Teach. 6th Edition. New York: McGraw Hill, 2007.
Chapter 6: Assessment
Chapter 7: Presenting and Explaining
Chapter 8: Direct Instruction
Chapter 11: Problem-Based Learning
Chapter Summaries
Nitko, Anthony J. & Susan M. Brookhart. Educational Assessment of Students. 5th Edition. New York: Prentice Hall, 2007.
Chapter 7: Completion, Short-Answer and True/False Items
Chapter 8: Multiple-Choice and Matching Exercises
Chapter 9: Essay Assessment Tasks

From the Paper:

"Like it or not, a great deal of every teacher's time is devoted to preparing students for facing the processes of assessment, especially in the era of No Child Left Behind. Also, although no teacher wants students to be purely grade-driven in their approach to learning, on the other hand coping with the prospect of positive and negative external rewards can be profoundly motivating for many students. Regardless, students must learn to cope with standardized assessments given that most states today have testing programs that measure student achievement in 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th grades. Almost all states tests that determine whether a student can graduate from high school and NCLB bases school funding upon student performance. It determines if the school itself will receive funding or be graded a failing school. No administrator wants his or her school to get a failing grade."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Arends, Richard I. Learning to Teach. 6th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
• Nitko, Anthony J. & Susan M. Brookhart. Educational Assessment of Students. 5th Edition. New York: Prentice Hall, 2007.

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