An Assessment Riddle -
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Published on: 11/24/1999
Last Visited: 8/11/2001
by Barbara Walwoord and Virginia Anderson
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In Walvoord and Anderson ( in press ) , we also show in detail what can happen when faculty submit , for centralized analysis , materials such as their course objectives , one or more assignments or tests that measure those objectives , the PTA scoring scales they use to evaluate student performances on those tests and assignments , student scores on the PTA scales ( which are not necessarily the same as grades , though grades can be derived from them ) , and information about how they feed back the results of such assessment to their students and to their own classroom practices.
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Walvoord , B. E. , and Anderson , V. J. Using Grading for Assessment.
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Virginia Anderson is professor of biology at Towson State University , Baltimore , Maryland.
Reprinted with permission from Assessment Update , November- December 1995 , Volume 7 , Number 6. Copyright © 1995 Jossey-Bass , Inc. , Publishers , 350 Sansome Street , San Francisco , CA 94104( 800 ) 956-7739 - http : //www.josseybass.com/
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