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Beyond tests and quizzes : creative assessments in the college classroom

Title

Beyond tests and quizzes : creative assessments in the college classroom / Richard J. Mezeske, Barbara A. Mezeske, editors.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2007.

Description

xxiv, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

URL

<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007023340.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0741/2007023340-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0741/2007023340-d.html

Other contributors

Mezeske, Barbara A. Mezeske, Richard J.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : why these assessment opportunities make sense in a world where assessment of factual knowledge has taken hold / Elizabeth Gayton
• Why creative assessment? / Richard J. Mezeske, Barbara A. Mezeske
• Concept mapping : assessing pre-service teachers' understanding and knowledge / Richard J. Mezeske
• Getting creative in a required course : variable grading, learning logs, and authentic testing / Barbara A. Mezeske
• "From now on you'll be history" : the transition from memorization to analysis / Janis M. Gibbs
• Resurrecting the lab practical / Kathy Winnett-Murray
• Exams as learning experiences : one nutty idea after another / Thomas Smith
• Web-based instruction and assessment in a German culture course / Lee Forester
• Challenging students (and the professor) to use all of their brains : a semester-long exercise in thinking styles and synthesis / Elizabeth A. Trembley
• Demonstrating synthesis : technology assessment tools for field experience learning / Susan Cherup
• Assessing an engineering design team project : build it, and they will come / Michael Misovich, Roger Veldman
• Tracking learning over time in health care education using clinical proficiency transcripts / Richard Ray
• Verbing the noun : grammar in action / Rhoda Janzen
• Hands-on assessment can work for pre-service elementary teachers / Mary DeYoung
• Building assignments within community : assessment in the real world / David B. Schock
• Conclusion : do classroom assessment techniques improve student learning and fulfill larger assessment goals? / Scott VanderStoep, Carla Reyes.

Subject headings

College students--Rating of--Case studies. Grading and marking (Students)--Case studies. Creative teaching--Case studies.

ISBN

9780470180839 (cloth) 0470180838 (cloth)