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Tips for Developing Classroom Assessments

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As an educator, you know that standardized tests are a fact of life. They can produce useful information, but the results often are too late, too shallow or not what you needed to find out.

So, the best tool you have is the classroom-based assessment. Here are some suggestions to help you develop classroom tests that provide valid, reliable and usable information about how students are doing.

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