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A Think-Aloud Approach to Writing Assessment
A Think-Aloud Approach to Writing Assessment:
Analyzing Process & Product with Adolescent Writers
Sarah Beck
The think-aloud approach to classroom writing assessment is designed to expand teachers’ perspectives on adolescent students as writers and help them integrate instruction and assessment in a timely way. Emphasising learning over evaluation, it is especially well-suited to revealing students’ strengths and helping them overcome common challenges to writing such as writer’s block or misunderstanding of the writing task.
Through classroom examples, Sarah Beck describes how to implement the think-aloud method and shows how this method is flexible and adaptable to any writing assignment and classroom context. The book also discusses the significance of the method in relation to best practices in formative assessment, including how to plan think-aloud sessions with students to gain the most useful information.
Teachers required to use rubrics or other standardised assessment tools can incorporate the more individualised think-aloud approach into their practice without sacrificing the rigour and consistency more regulated approaches require.
166 Pages | Pbk
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Assessing with Respect
Title: Assessing with Respect: Everyday Practices That Meet Students' Social and Emotional Needs
Author: Starr Sackstein
In this timely and thoughtful call to action, author and educator Starr Sackstein examines the critical intersection between assessment and social and emotional learning (SEL), particularly as it affects students of colour and other marginalised groups. The book addresses the five SEL competencies identified by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) – self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making – and explains how teaching students to develop their abilities in these areas can help them improve their learning and assessment experiences.
Sackstein also raises important considerations for educators, urging them to:
* examine their implicit biases to improve their relationships with students
* deepen their understanding of the impact of grades and assessments on students’ self-image and their ability to reach their full potential as learners
* develop personalised assessment systems that ensure an accurate, fair and equitable portrayal of what students know and can do.
In addition to presenting the relevant research, Sackstein draws from personal experience and the reflections of students, teachers and administrators to present a compelling case for approaching assessment through the SEL lens. Educators at all levels who have witnessed the devastating effects that testing can have on students’ beliefs in themselves as learners will find Assessing with respect to be an invaluable guide to ensuring better outcomes – and better emotional health – for all students.
Published on: 30 November 2021
ISBN: 9781760944230
Number Of Pages: 167
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Elements of Grading: A Guide to Effective Practice, Second E
Elements of Grading: A Guide to Effective Practice, Second Edition
Author - Douglas Reeves
Elements of Grading: A Guide to Effective Practice, Second Edition addresses issues and controversies regarding the primary source of student feedback – grades. In this resource, Douglas Reeves argues that effective grading practices must be fair, accurate, specific, and timely and shows how to begin a constructive, evidence-based conversation for improving grading policies.
Featuring a significant amount of new content, this second edition includes how the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and technology impact grading and engages all stakeholders in promoting change for improved student learning.
K–12 administrators and educators will:
Review a rational process for evaluating grading systems at all levels
Discover a collegial process for discussing contentious issues in grading
Apply a communicative process for bringing all stakeholders in the grading debate
Learn strategies for making grading practices fair, accurate, specific, and timely
Discover ways to utilize new technology tools for more efficient grading
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Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques
Title: Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for F-12 Classrooms
Authors - Siobhan Leahy & Dylan Wiliam
Effective classroom formative assessment helps educators make minute-by-minute, day-by-day instructional decisions, but putting it into practice requires both a robust collection of techniques and an understanding of how to use them. In Embedding Formative Assessment, authors Dylan Wiliam and Siobhan Leahy deliver a clear, practical guide for teachers, centred on five key strategies for improving teacher practice and student achievement:
Clarifying, sharing and understanding learning intentions and success criteria
Engineering productive discussion and activities that elicit evidence of learning
Providing feedback that moves learners forward
Activating students as learning resources for each other
Activating students as owners of their own learning.
Then, for each strategy, the authors provide an overview of the strategy and a number of very practical formative assessment techniques for implementing it in F–12 classrooms. Along with guidance on when and how to use the specific techniques, they provide tips, cautions and enhancements to sustain formative assessment. A student reflection form, peer observation form and self-reflection checklist accompany each strategy.
No known practice is more effective than classroom formative assessment for producing a significant positive impact on student achievement. Wiliam and Leahy provide the necessary tips and techniques to put it into practice immediately.
ISBN: 9781941112298
Published on: 16 Jun 2015
Number of Pages: 266 pages
Paperback
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Local Assessment Toolkit to Promote Deeper Learning
Local Assessment Toolkit to Promote Deeper Learning: Transforming Research Into Practice
by Karin Hess
Build assessments you can really use - Unlock the how, when, what, and why
Watch your system become greater than its parts by building local capacity through common language and deeper knowledge of assessment components. For years, educators have turned to the Hess Cognitive Rigor Matrices (CRM). Now for the first time, the modules are packaged into one resource to help you evaluate the quality and premise of your current assessment system. Designed as a professional development guide for long-term use by school leaders, five content-rich, topic-based modules:
Offer field-tested, teacher-friendly strategies for local school test development
Can be used for individual or professional development opportunities
Allow for sequential or non-sequential use
CONTENTS
Module 1: Are My Students Thinking Deeply or Just Working Harder? Infusing Rigor Into Instruction and Assessment: Laying the Groundwork for Deeper Learning for All Students
Module 2: Is the Task Appropriate to the Text? Examining and Using Increasingly Complex Texts
Module 3: What Does This Test Really Measure? Designing and Refining High-Quality Assessments for Deeper Learning
Module 4: Where Do I Start, What Do I Teach Next, Which Supports Work Best? Using Learning Progressions as a Schema for Planning Instruction and Measuring Progress
Module 5: Is This a Collection of Tests or an Assessment System? Building and Sustaining a Local Comprehensive Assessment System for Deeper Learning
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Pathways to Proficiency: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading
Pathways to Proficiency: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading
Authors - Anthony Reibel, Mark Onuscheck, Troy Gobble and Eric Twadell
Pathways to Proficiency: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading urges schools to challenge their traditional practices and adopt a new, more effective grading model for students. Authors Troy Gobble, Mark Onuscheck, Anthony R. Reibel and Eric Twadell provide a straightforward, five-phase creative model to implement practices that more accurately reflect student learning. Pathways to Proficiency guides F–12 leaders and teachers to better clarify student expectations and collect visible evidence of student learning in order to close the gaps in achievement and content mastery for all learners.
Readers will
* learn the five phases necessary to transform grading practices: (1) preparation, (2) incubation, (3) insight, (4) evaluation and (5) elaboration
* gain insights into confronting the challenges that can impede efforts
* consider research that can help shape individualised, valuable professional learning experiences
* discover the relationships between learning targets and grading, feedback and instruction, assessment and grading, and gradebooks and learning
* identify the concepts and perspectives that team members must adopt to successfully implement evidence-based grading practices.
Published: 26th May 2017
ISBN: 9781760563622
Number Of Pages: 168
Regular price: 45.00
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Real-World Learning Framework for Elementary Schools
Real-World Learning Framework for Elementary Schools: Digital Tools and Practical Strategies for Successful Implementation
Authors - Janet Lynne Tassell, Rebecca Stobaugh and Marge Maxwell
In Real-World Learning Framework for Elementary Schools: Digital Tools and Practical Strategies for Successful Implementation, Marge Maxwell, Rebecca Stobaugh, and Janet Lynne Tassell remind educators that, in order to foster authentic learning in the classroom, they must plan and support relevant learning experiences that allow students to exert creativity. The authors outline the Create Excellent Framework, which supports cognitive complexity, student engagement, and technology integration through real-world, project-based instruction in grades K-5. This framework fosters deeper and self-directed learning and helps students find greater fulfilment in their learning, while also meeting the guidelines of curriculum standards.
K-5 teachers, administrators, and curriculum coordinators will:
* Learn the components of the research-based Create Excellence Framework for lesson planning and how each connects to student content standards
* Discover the five levels of real-world learning
* Answer questions to consider in setting up the Create Excellence Framework for real-world learning
* Consult real-world examples of Create Excellence Framework-applicable learning projects
* Learn about many online tools and resources to promote online projects that engage students
Published: 3rd August 2017
ISBN: 9781760563820
Number Of Pages: 340
Regular price: 49.00
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Simplifying Common Assessment
Simplifying Common Assessment : A Guide for Professional Learning Communities at Work
Chris Jakicic, Kim Bailey
In Simplifying Common Assessment : A Guide for Professional Learning Communities at Work, Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic address questions and challenges teacher teams experience and demonstrate how teams can develop effective and efficient common assessments. They simplify assessment development to give F–12 collaborative teams the confidence to write and use team-designed common formative
assessments. This way, educators can monitor students’ learning and ensure that all students master essential skills and concepts.
Readers will :
* frame their assessment and feedback methods to pursue the end goal of learning for all
* use templates and protocols to unwrap essential standards, create performance tasks, plan appropriate assessments and analyse data
* learn the different purposes that wide-angle questions and close-up questions serve in reaching assessment goals
* understand different types of assessments and the results gained from each of them
* use a road map that can help guide their work with common assessments.
Regular price: 32.00
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Softening the Edges
Softening the Edges: Assessment Practices That Honor K–12 Teachers and Learners
Author: Katie White & Cassandra Erkens
Softening the Edges: Assessment Practices That Honor K - 12 Teachers and Learners asserts that assessment must smoothly guide students through their learning and engage them so their confidence grows and their experiences are positive and relevant. To achieve this, author Katie White presents practices for designing, delivering, and differentiating instruction and assessment to address teachers' and students' intellectual, physical, emotional, and social needs. When teachers develop effective assessments that consider the whole person, they support all aspects of students' growth and their own experiences as teachers.
K - 12 teachers will:
* Understand the language of assessment and softened assessment edges
* Spot the indicators of hard and soft edges in classroom practices
* Discover how to educate for the whole student to meet students' cognitive, social-emotional, physical, and ethical development needs
* Examine the importance of a learning continuum
* Visualize the qualities of a shared space that supports students' and teachers' learning
Published: 2nd August 2017
ISBN: 9781760563868
Number Of Pages: 236
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The ANIE: A Math Assessment Tool
The ANIE: A Math Assessment Tool That Reveals Learning and Informs Teaching
Author - Kirk Savage & Kevin Bird
"The ANIE (Assessment of Numeracy in Education) is a teacher-developed assessment tool that uses numeracy and common core performance standards to assess student understanding of maths concepts. This simple diagnostic tool helps teacher identify gaps in learning so they can plan intervention. It takes about 10 minutes to administer, grading is relatively quick and most importantly, teachers can use the results to plan timely and targeted intervention.
This highly readable book introduces a powerful assessment tool and intervention strategies that are simple yet revolutionary in their impact on student learning. Based on extensive use in hundreds of classrooms, the book explains each component of the ANIE. The authors share proven techniques for introducing the ANIE to students, and grading and interpreting the results to inform teaching and learning. Throughout the book, real situations and results are used to illustrate the radical improvements in learning that the ANIE has inspired.
The ANIE helps students master a step-by-step process for solving any maths question:
1. Decide what operation is needed to solve a question
2. Estimate a reasonable answer
3. Calculate the answer
4. Represent the question
5. Apply the concept to a real-word situation by developing a word problem.
Designed for students in Years 1–12, the ANIE is a one-page assessment of a single learning outcome or standard. Complex enough to fully align with performance standards, it is simple enough to use as a learning tool every day. Accessible to all teachers, whether they are generalists or maths specialists, The ANIE gives teachers the tools they need to actively engage students in making meaning for themselves and connecting maths concepts they are learning to their own lives."
Code: PBP6357
ISBN: 9781760016357
No of Pages: 86
Publish Date: 22 September 2015
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