Designing Middle and High School Instruction and Assessment: Using the Cognitive Domain » (New Edition)

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 to

Unwrap state and national standards

Understand how objectives and test items provide evidence of a particular level of knowledge

Write measurable objectives for unit and daily lesson plans

Develop appropriate assessments in the content areas

This 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 vii

About the Authors ix

Introduction 1

1 Deconstructing the Standards 5

2 Writing Unit and Daily Instructional Objectives 15

3 Writing True-False and Completion Items and Matching Exercises 37

4 Writing Multiple-Choice Items 59

5 Writing Short-Answer and Essay Items 73

6 Performance-Based Assessment 99

7 Portfolios 115

8 Conclusion 129

Further Readings 131

References 135

Index 137