The College Classroom Assessment Compendium: A Practical Guide to the College Instructor’s Daily Assessment Life

"The College Classroom Assessment Compendium provides new and seasoned instructors with comprehensive strategies, perspectives, and solutions for the daily challenges and issues involved in student assessment. Composed of cross-referenced, research-based entries organized for effective and immediate access, this book provides systematic explanation's of assessment policies and practices, including guidelines for classroom implementation. Situated beyond the techniques covered in most instructor training and preparation, these practical entries draw from a variety of disciplines and offer an invaluable reference for college instructors interested in developing coherent, reliable classroom assessment climates."--Provided by publisher Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Align Assessments to Learning Objectives 3 Assessment Philosophy 4 Assessment Plan 5 Attendance 6 Beneficence 7 Borderline Grade Cases 8 Cheat Sheets or Crib Sheets 9 Cheating and Plagiarism 10 Collaborative Testing 11 Compensatory and Conjunctive Grading 12 Contract Grading and Learning Contracts 13 Criterion-Referenced Grading Approaches 14 Design Assessments First 15 Drop a Question 16 Drop the Lowest Grade 17 Effort 18 Equity 19 Evaluation Anxiety 20 Extra Credit 21 Fairness 22 Feedback 23 Feedback Timing 24 FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) 25 Formative and Summative Assessments 26 Gatekeeping 27 Grade Explanation 28 Grade Feeding Frenzy 29 Grade Inflation 30 Groupwork 31 Humor 32 Incomplete Grades 33 Late Work 34 Learning-Oriented Assessment 35 Low Test Scores 36 Make-Up Exams 37 Mastery Opportunities 38 Missing Assignments 39 Non-Cognitive Factors 40 Norm-Referenced Grading Approaches 41 Not Everything That Matters Must Be Graded 42 Online Assessment and Authentication 43 Online Discussions 44 Online Test Security 45 Open-Book Exams 46 Our Policy on Policies 47 Participation 48 Peer Assessment 49 Personal Disclosures 50 Pop Quizzes 51 Prior Knowledge 52 Quizzing Frequency 53 Rubrics 54 Scoring Essay Tests, Papers, or Assignments 55 Selected- and Constructed-Response Questions 56 Self-Assessment 57 Student Choice 58 Take-Home Exams 59 Test Security 60 Zero Grades Resources References Index "The College Classroom Assessment Compendium provides new and seasoned instructors with comprehensive strategies, perspectives, and solutions for the daily challenges and issues involved in student assessment. Composed of cross-referenced, research-based entries organized for effective and immediate access, this book provides systematic explanation's of assessment policies and practices, including guidelines for classroom implementation. Situated beyond the techniques covered in most instructor training and preparation, these practical entries draw from a variety of disciplines and offer an invaluable reference for college instructors interested in developing coherent, reliable classroom assessment climates."--back cover