Making Classroom Assessments Reliable and Valid

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—John Hattie

Laureate Professor and Deputy Dean, University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Victoria, Australia

—Heidi Andrade

Associate Professor; School of Education; University at Albany, SUNY; Albany, New York

K–12 teachers and administrators will explore: • The history of large-scale assessments • The importance of and future role of classroom assessment • Traditional and new paradigms of reliability and validity • Tools for measuring students’ individual and comparative growth • Formulas to create reliable and valid classroom assessments Visit go.SolutionTree.com/assessment to download the free reproducibles in this book.

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robert j. marzano

“With this book, Dr. Marzano takes on the concept of quality in classroom assessment. Noting that almost all problems with classroom assessment are rooted in their validity and reliability—or the lack thereof—he transforms psychometric concepts into processes over which teachers have control. By following his guidelines, teachers, schools, and districts can design quality classroom assessment systems that result in accurate grades, informative report cards, and even enhanced teacher evaluations.”

Making Classroom Assessments Reliable and Valid asserts the importance for classroom assessment to be the primary method of formally measuring student learning, supplanting large-scale assessments. Robert J. Marzano highlights the benefits of classroom assessments in reporting students’ ongoing learning, and the need for them to be reliable and valid. This comprehensive resource shows K–12 teachers and administrators why and how to make them just that—using new paradigms to ensure the measurement is an accurate and trustworthy interpretation of student achievement.

making classroom assessments reliable & valid

“If formative evaluations are so critical, then the quality of the measures leading to these evaluations has to be reliable and valid—perhaps even more so than the quality of summative evaluations. Author Robert J. Marzano provides the methods and principles about how we can attest to this quality of classroom assessments. This book is not only a guide, a place to dip in and out, but it is full of methods and processes to help make quality decisions. This is the up-to-date review of the latest thinking in assessment, it is beautifully written, and it should become the teacher’s go-to book.”


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