Making Assessment Matter

Author : Nonie K. Lesaux
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1462502482
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Assessment Matter written by Nonie K. Lesaux and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " All too often, literacy assessments are given only for accountability purposes and fail to be seen as valuable resources for planning and differentiating instruction. This clear, concise book shows K-5 educators how to implement a comprehensive, balanced assessment battery that integrates accountability concerns with data-driven instruction. Teachers learn to use different types of test scores to understand and address students' specific learning needs. The book features an in-depth case example of a diverse elementary school that serves many struggling readers and English language learners. Reproducible planning and progress-monitoring forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. "--Provided by publisher.

Author : Graham Butt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441181806
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Assessment Matter written by Graham Butt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers often spend a considerable amount of their time monitoring and assessing their pupils' performance. But what are we assessing for, and can assessment practices be changed to make them more useful to teachers and learners? Assessment activities in schools are frequently criticised by government inspectors - often being reported as the least successful aspect of schools' work. Drawing on established research, Making Assessment Matter focuses on the purpose of assessment, and suggests strategies for managing assessment in a more effective way. The author considers the role of assessment in promoting learning, rather than simply measuring it, provides tips on setting and attaining assessment targets, and brings together considerations of 'high stakes' assessment at the national level with day-to-day assessment practice in the classroom. This timely and informative book will be essential reading for anyone involved with, or interested in, the role of assessment within schools, including teachers, trainee teachers and managers.

Author : Graham Butt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847063837
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Assessment Matter written by Graham Butt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Author : Margaret Heritage
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 145220960X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formative Assessment written by Margaret Heritage and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, in-depth guide to implementing formative assessment in your classroom! Formative assessment allows teachers to identify and close gaps in student understanding and move learning forward. This research-based book walks readers through every step of the process and offers illustrative examples across a range of subject areas and grade levels. This book explains how to: Clearly articulate learning progressions, learning goals, and success criteria Select strategies for assessment and provide quality feedback Engage students in self-assessment and self-management Create a classroom environment that values feedback as part of the learning process

Author : David M Schmittou
Publisher : Edumatch
ISBN 13 : 9781970133820
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Assessment Work for Educators Who Hate Data But LOVE Kids written by David M Schmittou and published by Edumatch. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data has become synonymous with other four-letter words, as a source of profanity not to be uttered in schools, yet being assessment literate is actually a key component in generating highly effective learning environments. In this book, Dr. Schmittou takes the often dreaded conversation about assessment and data and makes it manageable, useful, and relevant. This is not a book about scale scores, Rausch Units, or standard deviations. This is a book designed to help classroom teachers get to know their students better by creating and using assessment in a systemic and systematic way that actually makes sense. If you are an educator who loves students, loves your content, and loves teaching, but you hate the high stakes environment that schools have become because of the misunderstandings surrounding numbers, labels, and data, then this is the book for you. Jump in and learn practical tips for understanding how to reach EACH child in your quest to teach EVERY child. Knowing the difference between EACH and EVERY is THE difference.

Author : Anthony Kastros
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
ISBN 13 : 1593704224
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering the Fire Service Assessment Center, 2nd Ed written by Anthony Kastros and published by Fire Engineering Books. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Do you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to evaluate behavior, performance, and readiness? Read Mastering the Fire Service Assessment Center to identify what you need to learn and understand how to learn it. There is no way you can read and reflect on the wisdom in these pages and not become a better person and a better firefighter. Why Read This Book? The American fire service is facing a new normal fueled by mass exodus, influx of new generations of firefighters, a lack of hands-on leadership training, sweeping changes in mission, decimated budgets, and the genetics of task-oriented, reactive forefathers. The greatest and perhaps only area that we can affect directly is hands-on, inspiring, realistic, and useful training for our aspiring and incumbent leaders. This book will help you regardless of the fire officer rank you seek. It will help you know where you need to improve, how to develop a specific personal plan to become an excellent officer, and how to do well with whatever assessment center exercises throw at you. NEW MATERIAL in this second edition: --Enjoy reading “Wisdom from the Masters” from 18 fire service luminaries. They provide invaluable insights and challenges you will face as you prepare to promote, whether for the first time as a company officer or up the chain as a chief officer. --Learn lessons from thousands of students from the past 12 years whose feedback will benefit you in this second edition. --Benefit from the many new elements in this book, including relevant articles, additional exercises, and content regarding the dimensions of leadership, management, and emergency operations. The complexities of being a fire officer in the 21st century require an undercurrent of humility while continually pursuing mastery of leading in the modern fire service. Learn how to lead the modern-day firefighter in a modern world, with modern technology, modern fire behavior, and modern sociopolitical and economic challenges. Many firefighters ask themselves if they really want to do this job, but nothing is as professionally rewarding and challenging as leading others in battle to save lives! “This book will give you the greatest probability of success in your assessment center process.” —Bobby Halton, editor-in-chief, Fire Engineering magazine

Author : Linda Darling-Hammond
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 080777636X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authentic Assessment in Action written by Linda Darling-Hammond and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary schools, how five schools have developed “authentic,” performance-based assessments of students’ learning, and how this work has interacted with and influenced the teaching and learning experiences students encounter in school. This important and timely book reveals the changing dynamics of classroom life as it moves from more traditional pedagogy to one that asks students to master intellectual and practical skills that are eminently transferable to “real-life” social settings and workplaces. “The issue of assessment comes first, but we see in the following case studies how it becomes powerfully enveloped in the processes of learning and teaching, of informing students, teachers, parents, and others of ‘how the children are doing.’ The portraits explicitly and implicitly suggest a deep, fair, and defensible way to answer the question ‘How’m I doing?’ in a manner that helps this child and eventually every child.” —From the Foreword by Theodore R. Sizer “Informative and thought provoking.” —American Journal of Education

Author : László Pintér
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1I/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Global Integrated Environmental Assessment and Reporting Matter written by László Pintér and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George D. Kuh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118903390
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education written by George D. Kuh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American higher education needs a major reframing of student learning outcomes assessment Dynamic changes are underway in American higher education. New providers, emerging technologies, cost concerns, student debt, and nagging doubts about quality all call out the need for institutions to show evidence of student learning. From scholars at the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education presents a reframed conception and approach to student learning outcomes assessment. The authors explain why it is counterproductive to view collecting and using evidence of student accomplishment as primarily a compliance activity. Today's circumstances demand a fresh and more strategic approach to the processes by which evidence about student learning is obtained and used to inform efforts to improve teaching, learning, and decision-making. Whether you're in the classroom, an administrative office, or on an assessment committee, data about what students know and are able to do are critical for guiding changes that are needed in institutional policies and practices to improve student learning and success. Use this book to: Understand how and why student learning outcomes assessment can enhance student accomplishment and increase institutional effectiveness Shift the view of assessment from being externally driven to internally motivated Learn how assessment results can help inform decision-making Use assessment data to manage change and improve student success Gauging student learning is necessary if institutions are to prepare students to meet the 21st century needs of employers and live an economically independent, civically responsible life. For assessment professionals and educational leaders, Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education offers both a compelling rationale and practical advice for making student learning outcomes assessment more effective and efficient.

Author : Ruth Parker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003843212
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digging Deeper written by Ruth Parker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the transition to student-centered learning begins with finding ways to get students to share their thinking, something that can be particularly challenging for older learners. Authors Ruth Parker and Cathy Humphreys return with Digging Deeper: Making Number Talks Matter Even More, Grades 3-10, taking the readers into classrooms where their Number Talks routines are taught.In this comprehensive sequel to their best-selling book, Making Number Talks Matter, Parker and Humphreys apply their 15 minute lessons to older grade levels to inspire and initiate math talks. Through vignettes in the book, you'll meet other teachers learning how to listen closely to students and how to prompt them into figuring out solutions to problems. You will learn how to make on-the-spot decisions, continually advancing and deepening the conversation. Digging Deeper includes: Sample Problems: Digging Deeper is filled with a range of Number Talks problems, 10-15 minute warm-up routines that lend themselves to mental math and comparison of strategies Navigating Rough Spots: Learn how to create a safe environment for tricky, problematic, or challenging student discussions that can arise when talking through problems and sharing ideas Responding to Mistakes: Ways to handle misconceptions and mathematical errors that come up during the course of Number Talk conversations Digging Deeper is filled with teaching tips for using wait time between problems more efficiently, honoring student contributions while still correcting errors, and teaching concepts while nudging independent thinking. Through daily practice and open conversation, you can make Number Talks matter more.