Beyond Tests and Quizzes : Creative Assessments in the College Classroom (Hardcover)

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. 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. 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).

10. Assessing an Engineering Design Team Project: Build It, and They Will Come (Michael Misovich and 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 and Carla Reyes).

Index.