Assessment

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Assessment

• New age of accountability NCLB
• Standards movement
• Direct measure of learning objectives
• Formative and summative
• Vary types offer options
• Nontraditional tests
• In addition to factual knowledge, assess
  application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
• Phrase test items so that comprehension depends
  on the learned material rather than on experience
  or verbatim recall
• High stakes tests
• Common assessments
• Taking the secrecy out of tests
• Authentic assessment
• Retaking tests