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Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance (Jossey-Bass Education)

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Grant Wiggins has written an excellent book that delves into, not only the ways in which we can change current assessment practices, but he also explores ways in which we can change policies that drive assessment practices. Wiggins explores various assessment techniques that are found outside the realm of traditional assessment. This book is an amazing eye-opener and it is written in a way that is smart and sometimes humorous. If you are looking for a book about education assessment that causes sporatic narcolepsy you are in the wrong place. Buy it. Read it. You won't be disappointed.

This text was beneficial for me in a few ways. First it explained exactly what assessment is in our public schools today and then it provided several ways to improve the state of assessment in our classrooms. Finally, it discussed and explained different types of assessment, which provided me with many unique tools to use in my own classroom. This is a valuable resource for any classroom teacher or student hoping to teach. I feel I will refer to this text for years to come. I felt a sense of positivity in the book and a desire for change in the world of standardized testing.

I had to buy this book for a class. It is boring and impractical. Even the teacher didn't like it. Some of the theories are good but they are explained in an overly wordy fashion. Most of the examples offered in the book were told from a negative viewpoint that gives the book an overall negative tone. The assessment strategies offered were unrealistic in today's school environment and no particular effort was exerted to explain how any of them could be implemented in a regular public-school classroom.

Great seller, got it within the time frame promised. Would buy again