Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The transformation of key beliefs that have guided a century of assessment / Edmund W. Gordon -- Beyond rhetoric : realities and complexities of integrating assessment into classroom teaching and learning / James Pellegrino and Susan R. Goldman -- Integrating assessment and learning : what will it take to make it work? / Dylan Wiliam and Marnie Thompson -- Conversational agents can profide formative assessment, constructive learning, and adaptive instruction / Arthur Graesser and Bethany McDaniel -- Intelligent tutoring systems for continuous, embedded assessment / Kurt VanLehn -- Tensions, trends, tools, and technologies : time for an educational sea change / Valerie J. Shute -- Assessment for learning--for teachers as well as students / Charlotte Danielson -- Assessment as instructional support : policies and practices / Roderick Paige and Elaine P. Witty -- Correcting "errors of measurement" that sabotage student learning / Richard Stiggins -- Assessment and school reform : lessons from fifteen years in the field / M. Susana Navarro -- Classroom assessment : staying instructionally afloat in an ocean of accountability / W. James Popham -- Formative assessment : caveat emptor / Lorrie A. Shepard -- Improving achievement and closing gaps between groups : the role of assessment in helping us move further, faster / Kati Haycock.

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