Guiding principles for classroom assessment -- Understanding the critical roles of assessment -- Specifying achievement targets -- Understanding the assessment alternatives -- Facing the barriers to quality assessment -- Selected response assessment: flexible and efficient -- Essay assessment: vast untapped potential -- Performance assessment: rich with possibilities -- Personal communication: another window to student achievement -- Assessing reasoning proficiency -- Performance assessment of skill and product targets -- Assessing student dispositions -- Classroom perspectives on standardized testing -- Understanding our communication challenge -- Developing sound report card grading practices -- The role of portfolios in the communication process -- Reports and conferences that highlight achievement.

Includes bibliographical reference and index.