This fast paced and fun video provides useful recommendations for classroom teachers on how to design and evaluate assessments to best evaluate students' knowledge and skill. It covers the topics of:

• Using assessments to find out where students are and how they learn best
• Designing assessments to support learning and help students become more aware of their own learning needs
• Understanding "construct relevant" and "construct irrelevant" design elements of assessments
• Understanding and avoiding construct "irrelevant" design features of assessments that may create barriers
• Evaluating individual items of an assessment that may be problematic and getting in the way of understanding the student's knowledge

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