Making Classrooms Assessments Reliable and Valid

Making Classroom Assessments Reliable and Valid asserts the importance for classroom assessment to be the primary method of formally measuring student learning, supplanting large-scale assessments. Robert J. Marzano highlights the benefits of classroom assessments in reporting students’ ongoing learning, and the need for them to be reliable and valid.

This comprehensive resource shows F–12 teachers and administrators why and how to make them just that – using new paradigms to ensure the measurement is an accurate and trustworthy interpretation of student achievement.

F–12 teachers and administrators will explore

• the history of large-scale assessments

• the importance of and future role of classroom assessment

• traditional and new paradigms of reliability and validity

• tools for measuring students’ individual and comparative growth

• formulas to create reliable and valid classroom assessments.