Teacher-Made Assessments

How to Connect Curriculum, Instruction, and Student Learning

Christopher R. Gareis, Leslie W. Grant

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781041121411
  9781041121404
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040624418
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Assessment is not only a measure of student learning, but a means to student learning. Teacher-Made Assessments, Third Edition, guides you in constructing and using your own classroom assessments, including tests, quizzes, essays, and performance-based assessments to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. You will learn how to weave together curriculum, instruction, and student learning to make assessment a more natural, useful part of teaching.

Find out how to:

• ensure your assessments are valid, reliable, and fair;
• construct assessments that meet the level of cognitive demand expected of students;
• create selected-response items and understand technology-enhanced items now common in assessment;
• use constructed-response items and develop scoring criteria such as rubrics;
• develop performance assessments that align with more complex learning expectations; and,
• analyze student results on assessments and use feedback more effectively with your students.

This substantively revised new edition addresses the benefits of instructionally sensitive assessment; the continuing evolution of technology-enhanced items; the integral contributions of teachers' practices to district-level assessment systems; strategies and examples of using generative AI to create assessments; and the important role of authentic performance-based assessments in teaching and learning in the 21st century.

Written with busy teachers and instructional leaders in mind, Teacher-Made Assessments is filled with clear ideas and loads of examples. No matter what grade level or subject area you teach, this practical, bestselling book will become your go-to resource for designing effective assessments.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword by Thomas R. Guskey
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Why Should I Assess Student Learning in My Classroom?
• 2 What Makes a Good Assessment?
• 3 How Do I Create a Good Assessment?
• 4 How Do I Create Good Selected-Response Items?
• 5 How Do I Create Good Constructed-Response Items?
• 6 How Do I Create Authentic Assessments of Student Learning?
• 7 How Can I Connect Assessment to Learning?
• 8 How Can I Constructively Influence Professional Practice in My School?
• Glossary of Terms