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
