Designing Middle and High School Instruction and Assessment: Using the Cognitive Domain / Edition 1

by John L. Badgett, Edwin P. Christmann

Overview

Create objectives and assessments that tap into all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy!

This practical book provides middle and high school teachers with explicit guidance on developing specific objectives and appropriate formative and summative assessments. After presenting an easy-to-follow model for designing objectives based on state and national content standards, the authors cover the major forms of assessment and provide detailed examples for all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Teachers will learn how to:

• Unwrap state and national standards
• Write measurable objectives for unit and daily lesson plans
• Develop assessments in the content areas

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412971171
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/29/2009
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.60(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 is the only book that takes a step-by-step approach to student assessment at the middle and secondary school levels. This book is a unique contribution to the field of evaluation and assessment.

John Hoyle