How to Design Questions and Tasks to Assess Student Thinking

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About

With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember facts and procedures.

Dedication

Assessing Higher-Order Thinking: Five Ws and an H

Assessment Questions and Tasks as "Problems to Solve"

The Assessment Toolkit

Multiple-Choice Questions That Assess Higher-Order Thinking

Open-Ended Questions

About the authors

Susan M. Brookhart, PhD, is professor emerita in the School of Education at Duquesne University and an independent educational consultant working with schools, districts, regional educational service units, universities, and states doing professional development.

She was the 2007–2009 editor of Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice and is currently an associate editor of Applied Measurement in Education. She is the author or coauthor of numerous books on classroom assessment, teacher professional development, and evaluation.

Brookhart has been named the 2014 Jason Millman Scholar by the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE) and is the recipient of the 2015 Samuel J. Messick Memorial Lecture Award from ETS/TOEFL.