Includes bibliographical references and index.

About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Why these assessment opportunities make sense in a world where assessment of factual knowledge has taken hold / Elizabeth Gayton -- 1. Why creative assessment? / Richard J. Mezeske, Barbara A. Mezeske -- 2. Concept mapping : assessing pre-service teachers' understanding and knowledge / Richard J. Mezeske -- 3. Getting creative in a required course : variable grading, learning logs, and authentic testing / Barbara A. Mezeske -- 4. "From now on you'll be history" : the transition from memorization to analysis / Janis M. Gibbs -- 5. Resurrecting the lab practical / Kathy Winnett-Murray -- 6. Exams as learning experiences : one nutty idea after another / Thomas Smith -- 7. Web-based instruction and assessment in a German culture course / Lee Forester -- 8. Challenging students (and the professor) to use all of their brains : a semester-long exercise in thinking styles and synthesis / Elizabeth A. Trembley -- 9. Demonstrating synthesis : technology assessment tools for field experience learning / Susan Cherup --

10. Assessing an engineering design team project : build it, and they will come / Michael Misovich, Roger Veldman -- 11. Tracking learning over time in health care education using clinical proficiency transcripts / Richard Ray -- 12. Verbing the noun : grammar in action / Rhoda Janzen -- 13. Hands-on assessment can work for pre-service elementary teachers / Mary DeYoung -- 14. Building assignments within community : assessment in the real world / David B. Schock -- Conclusion : Do classroom assessment techniques improve student learning and fulfill larger assessment goals? / Scott VanderStoep, Carla Reyes -- Index.