Looking Together at Student Work: A Companion Guide to Assessing Student Learning (Series on School Reform) - Softcover

Blythe, Tina; Allen, David; Powell, Barbara Schieffelin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807738557 ISBN 13: 9780807738559

Publisher: Teachers College Pr, 1999

Synopsis

This is a guide to help practitioners implement the means to reflect together on the quality and value of student work, and use the experience of shared evaluation as a means to engage in whole-school reform. It includes examples from schools that have developed their own methods.

About this title

About the Author:

Tina Blythe is director of faculty development at the Boston Architectural College and adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. David Allen is a senior research associate at the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST) at Teachers College, Columbia University. Barbara Schieffelin Powell is an educational consultant.

Review:

''Any group of teachers, parents, or community members could use [this book] to participate in the hard work of assessing where our schools are and how they can improve.'' --From the Foreword to the first edition by Kathleen Cushman

''This is a probing and practical guide. I commend these practices of looking together at student work as powerful resources not just for the technical but for the cultural enterprise of education. '' --From the Foreword by David N. Perkins, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Senior Co-Director of Harvard Project Zero

''School leaders looking for systemic strategies to improve student achievement would be well-served by Looking Together at Student Work.'' --The School Administrator, February 2009

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers College Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807738557
• ISBN 13: 9780807738559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 54