Points out the disadvantages and limitations of grading all student writing. Offers alternative methods of giving students meaningful feedback about their writing. (RL)

Shows how a teacher developed a pattern of responding to student writing. Lists 15 of her standard comments. (RL)

Sixteen teachers offer their alternative methods of evaluating student work in the English classroom. (RL)

Offers some new approaches to film previewing designed to save time and money for both film distributors and users. (FL)

Discusses the criterion-referenced approach for language instruction. The approach has four steps: performance analysis, target population analysis, goals analysis, and behavioral objectives. The latter consists of a condition (materials at the student's disposal), a task, and a standard of a model of correctness. (PJM)

Describes a technique for increasing students' concern for the merits of their papers and for their teachers' suggestions by withholding the grade each paper receives and offering the opportunity to rewrite. (DD)

Describes an activity in which students assume the roles of scientists living in the year 2,001,997 and make their own fossil record discoveries of animals that have undergone evolutionary changes since 1997. Students choose the animals as well as create the adaptations that have taken place. Includes a sample scoring rubric. (DKM)

Uses a life-sized number line to helps students visualize number relationships. (Contains 45 references.) (YDS)

Describes analyzing phases of the assessment sequence to determine future instruction. Illustrates how an assessment event might occur in a classroom. (YDS)

Describes how to assess nature journals which have great potential as a learning tool. Provides a nature journaling rubric. (YDS)

Investigates meaningful assessment to give teachers information on students' understanding of mathematical ideas and how their understanding changes over time. Presents examples collected from a teacher-made quiz, the Advanced Placement calculus test, and the SAT-I Mathematics test. Illustrates both the inherent subjectivity of these methods and…

Presents an in-depth look at the design and development of a portfolio-based writing assessment tool intended for use on a daily basis in the classroom. Helps teachers think about the role of assessment in guiding students' narrative writing, with particular emphasis on the connections among curriculum, instruction, and assessment. (RS)

Discusses the use of grading forms developed to spell out the responsibilities of the editor in chief, page editors, business manager, and photographers. Provides forms to grade news stories and editorials. (RS)

Observes some children as they went through middle school from two perspectives: as a parent, and as a college mathematics teacher. Contemplates why American children learn so little arithmetic in the middle grades. (ASK)

Offers a progressive series of eight lessons designed to guide students in generating questions, creating investigations, and finding answers. (AIM)