Designing Elementary Instruction and Assessment: Using the Cognitive Domain

by John L. Badgett (Editor), Edwin P. Christmann (Editor)

Overview

A practical guide for creating standards-based objectives and assessments aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy!

This user-friendly resource gives teachers clear, step-by-step guidelines for writing measurable objectives and developing appropriate formative and summative assessments to guide instruction in the elementary classroom. Providing detailed examples for all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, the authors cover unit and daily instructional objectives based on state and national content standards as well as all the major forms of assessment. Teachers discover how to:

• Deconstruct the standards and write concrete objectives
• Create true-false, fill-in-the-blank, matching, and multiple choice exercises
• Write short-answer questions and essay items
• Use performance-based assessments and portfolios

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412971218
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/13/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 Months

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Deconstructing the Standards
2. Writing Unit and Daily Instructional Objectives
3. Writing True-False and Completion Items and Matching Exercises
4. Writing Multiple-Choice Items
5. Writing Short-Answer and Essay Items
6. Performance-Based Assessment
7. Portfolios
8. Conclusion
References and Further Readings
Index

Editorial Reviews

This book is a wonderful tool and reference for any teacher. In my work of providing professional development to teachers of elementary science, one of the hardest areas for the teachers to grasp is assessment. Especially helpful for these teachers are the chapters on writing short-answer and essay items, performance-based assessment, and portfolios.

Cindy Pulkowski