This book provides specific guidelines to help educators design targeted questions and tasks that align with new academic standards and assess students' ability to think at higher levels.

1. Assessing higher-order thinking : five Ws and an H -- 2. Assessment questions and tasks as "problems to solve" -- 3. The assessment toolkit -- 4. Multiple-choice questions that assess higher-order thinking -- 5. Open-ended questions -- 6. Performance assessment tasks : the basics -- 7. Performance assessment tasks : varying the amount of structure -- 8. Performance assessment tasks : controlling cognitive level and difficulty -- 9. An idea bank of performance assessment tasks -- 10. Managing assessment of higher-order thinking.