educational evaluation

Presents six standards that provide criteria for judging the quality of mathematics assessments; and describes how those standards can be used to critique and improve assessment of the learning of mathematics.

Presents strategies that schools can use to provide evidence of educational improvement, with analysis tools, data principles, and other solutions for changing numbers into data that can be meaningful to parents and citizens everywhere.

Presents an overview of the assessment movement in American schools, discussing rubrics, portfolios, the standards movement, and ethical questions, and provides an annotated resource section.

An exploration of data-based methods and challenges of the implementation of data-driven instruction that offers tips and guidelines and includes twenty case studies and a CD-ROM with instructional tools.

Examines the process of data analysis in education, discussing how data impacts teachers and school leaders, decision-making, evaluation, and teaching.

Provides practical tips for teachers on writing assessments of student work, including report cards and longer narratives, covering beginnings and endings, details, and ways to save time when assessing a great number of students, such as in middle or high school.

Contains articles that provide ideas for education leaders, especially school principals, on how to initiate, lead, and sustain improvements in teaching and learning through assessments.

Questions what is wrong with our education system and analyzes almost every aspect of conventional education policy including college rankings, admissions, aptitude tests. Challenges what policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. Includes an index, tables, and diagrams.