Learning Never Stops!

I really hate to write detrimental things about books I do not like, but this is a required book in some class at my University…and frankly, I don’t know why. To be honest, I think part of it was the way the book was used in the classroom, and how the professors made us jump from one topic to another without gaining a full understanding of the first one! Just in case someone thinks I am just a student who could not hack the topic, my BS and MS are in Neuroscience, and I took statistics twice before this…once in neurostatistics and once in epidemiology. Try and read some of the journals in Neuroscience some time…Believe me they are much worse, or should be much worse then a social science document such as this.

I object to authors who write to impress their peers rather than write to explain their topic areas in such a way so that a student coming from another field can begin to understand what is going on fairly soon after reading the textbook, or parts of the textbook. I really do not care if the audience the authors/author are trying to reach are college students or graduate students, if the writing is such that the material does not make sense without total explanations from the teacher, then something is wrong. Most of the fifty some odd people in both classes who I talked to about it agreed that both the book and the classes were boring, unstimulating, and that they were having a difficult time comprehending the material presented. Since most of these people were and are teachers or those who work in educational research, it obviously wasn’t me or them. I think the idea is supposed to be to make curricula accessible to all students. Since I am a Deaf person, and have had my fill of professors who definitely did not try to make their classes accessible, I tend to hold the writers of textbooks up to a high standard. None of the students in the class were ‘learning-disabled’ but this book did an awfully good job of making feel as if we were. All of us tried to sell this book back rather than keep it in our shelves which at a graduate level is unusual, but because they are bring a new edition out the books were unresaleable. I am looking for a more coherent text for my own personal use on education assessment…it won’t be this one. Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh
Rating: 1 / 5

For a used book the product was in great shape. The book had very minor markings on it or in general anything wrong with it compared to brand new. Great service with very quick shipment. It only took it a couple of days to arrive. Highly recommended seller.
Rating: 5 / 5

This textbook provides a broad and thorough overview of many assessment tools including essays, portfolios and standardized tests. The textbook covers many areas including:

1) How to choose assessments based on learning objectives and contextual factors

2) How to develop and evaluate classroom assessments.

3) How the validity of assessment effect results

4) How to use formative assessment

5) How to interpret and use standardized tests

The most important feature of the textbook are the development and evaluation guidelines and checklists provided for each type of assessment.

This is a must for anyone involved in student assessment.

Rating: 5 / 5