Designing Middle and High School Instruction and Assessment: Using the Cognitive Domain
Built on Bloom’s Taxonomy, this resource helps middle and high school teachers write measurable, standards-based lesson plan objectives and develop assessments in the content areas.
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While today's curriculum is largely driven by standards, many teachers find the lack of specificity in the standards to be confounding and even intimidating. Now this practical book provides middle and high school teachers with explicit guidance on designing specific objectives and developing appropriate formative and summative assessments to guide instruction.The authors present an accessible model for developing unit and daily lesson plan objectives based on state and national content standards. Providing detailed examples for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy, including synthesis and evaluation, Designing Middle and High School Instruction and Assessment covers the major forms of assesment that allow teachers to measure students' understanding and mastery of the objectives. Teachers will learn how toUnwrap state and national standardsUnderstand how objectives and test items provide evidence of a particular level of knowledgeWrite measurable objectives for unit and daily lesson plansDevelop appropriate assessments in the content areasThis easy-to-follow resources gives teachers the tools to write specific, standards-based objectives and find the perfect assessments to measure their students' progress!
Acknowledgments viiAbout the Authors ixIntroduction 11 Deconstructing the Standards 52 Writing Unit and Daily Instructional Objectives 153 Writing True-False and Completion Items and Matching Exercises 374 Writing Multiple-Choice Items 595 Writing Short-Answer and Essay Items 736 Performance-Based Assessment 997 Portfolios 1158 Conclusion 129Further Readings 131References 135Index 137
\ John Hoyle“This is the only book that takes a step-by-step approach to student assessment at the middle and secondary school levels. This book is a unique contribution to the field of evaluation and assessment.”\ \
