De-Testing and De-Grading Schools by Call Number: LB 3051 D429 2016Publication Date: 2016-02-24This revised edited volume brings together a collection of updated and new essays that confronts the failure of testing and grading. The book explores the historical failure of testing and grading; the theoretical and philosophical arguments against testing and grading; the negative influence of tests and grades on social justice, race, class, and gender; and the role that they play in perpetuating a deficit perspective of children.
How to Assess Authentic Learning by Call Number: 371.264 BurPublication Date: 2009-10-07In this latest edition of her bestseller, renowned educator Kay Burke provides a wide range of updated, easy-to-implement alternative assessments that address today's accountability requirements and focus on improving learning. Designed for use across all content areas, these formative assessments are rooted in the language of state standards and emphasize differentiating instruction to meet students' individual learning needs. Revised throughout with updated research, this new edition helps K-12 teachers: Build Response to Intervention checklists for struggling students, develop unit plans using differentiated learning and assessment strategies, create portfolios that emphasize metacognition, design performance tasks that motivate and engage students, construct rubrics that describe indicators of quality work, create tests that focus on higher-order thinking skills, offering numerous applications and examples, how to assess authentic learning guides teachers in developing the assessment tools needed to help all students meet or exceed mandated academic standards.
Classroom Assessment for Student Learning by Call Number: LB 3051 C555 2012Publication Date: 2019-07-22This user-friendly, practical book is full of real-world examples of what assessment for learning looks like in today's classrooms. Presented in a format appropriate for use by individuals or collaborative learning teams, the book teaches two central concepts: How to create accurate classroom assessments of all types and how to integrate assessment with instruction day to day, with a focus on student involvement. The companion CD provides all necessary learning team resources: suggestions for forming and facilitating learning teams, suggestions for pacing the learning, and chapter-by-chapter forms and materials for completing the activities
