Author(s): Diann L. Musial,Elizabeth Hammerman
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 200
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
Language: English
Date Published: 2007-12-04
Dimensions: 213.36 x 276.86 x 15.24mm
Publication City/Country: Thousand Oaks, United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
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Defining new visions for science, mathematics, and language arts education, the authors provide a clearly articulated set of performance assessments, allowing teachers to assess students' knowledge and abilities through investigation, problem solving, inventiveness, and inquiry.



Featuring activities that promote higher-order thinking skills and help develop more complex cognitive functions, this resource offers more than 20 ready-to-use assessments linked to national standards with tools that include:





o Learning logs


o Portfolios


o Peer interview strategies


o Teacher-student sample interviews


o Problems to solve both individually and as a group.