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TITLE: |
Beyond tests and quizzes : creative assessments in the college classroom / Richard J. Mezeske, Barbara A. Mezeske, editors. |
PUBLISHED: |
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2007. |
DESCRIPTION: |
xxiv, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
EDITION: |
1st ed. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
NOTES: |
About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Why these assessment opportunities make sense in a world where assessment of factual knowledge has taken hold / Elizabeth Gayton -- 1. Why creative assessment? / Richard J. Mezeske, Barbara A. Mezeske --2. Concept mapping : assessing pre-service teachers´understanding and knowledge / Richard J. Mezeske -- 3. |t Getting creative in a required course : variable grading, learning logs, and authentic testing / Barbara A. Mezeske -- 4. "From now on you’ll be history" : the transition from memorization to analysis / Janis M. Gibbs -- 5. |t Resurrecting the lab practical / Kathy Winnett-Murray -- 6. Exams as learning experiences : one nutty idea after another / Thomas Smith -- 7. Web-based instruction and assessment in a German culture course / Lee Forester -- 8. Challenging students (and the professor) to use all of their brains : a semester-long exercise in thinking styles and synthesis / Elizabeth A. Trembley -- 9. Demonstrating synthesis : technology assessment tools for field experience learning / Susan Cherup -- |
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10. Assessing an engineering design team project : build it, and they will come / Michael Misovich, Roger Veldman -- 11. Tracking learning over time in health care education using clinical proficiency transcripts / Richard Ray -- 12. Verbing the noun : grammar in action / Rhoda Janzen -- 13. Hands-on assessment can work for pre-service elementary teachers / Mary DeYoung -- 14. 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 -- Index. |
SUBJECT: |
College students --Rating of--Case studies. |
SUBJECT: |
Grading and marking (Students)--Case studies. |
SUBJECT: |
Creative teaching --Case studies. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Mezeske, Richard J. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Mezeske, Barbara A. |
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