Robert J. Marzano
Drawing from years of in-depth research, Robert J. Marzano provides you with guidelines and steps for designing a comprehensive assessment program that ensures assessments and grades lead to timely, accurate feedback on specific, standards-based learning goals. Discover how classroom assessments—from quizzes and projects to term papers and tests—provide your school with the most powerful tools to boost achievement. Learn why point systems and score averaging are ineffective ways to grade students’ progress. And get clear advice
on how to create better assessments for a single classroom or an entire system:

 • Basic types of subject matter 
   knowledge that need to be measured

 • A three-step way to condense the huge amount
   of content in subject-area standards into small
   groups of measurement topics

 • Five formats for assessment items and tasks
   and when to use each

 • Two accurate ways to estimate a student’s true
   score at the end of a grading period

 • The ideal grade book for teachers to use to track
   academic progress

 • Types of assessments and assessment techniques
   that encourage students to learn

 • Report card formats that integrate useful feedback on learning
   with a traditional letter grade

 • Best types of computer software for creating and managing
   formative assessments

 • A three-phase approach to changing reporting systems to more
   accurately reflect student progress in learning

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