Fast and Effective Assessment: How to Reduce Your Workload and Improve Student Learning - Softcover

Pearsall, Glen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141662533X ISBN 13: 9781416625339

Publisher: ASCD, 2018

Synopsis

What if teachers could dramatically reduce the amount of time they spend reviewing and correcting student work and actually see better results in terms of student learning? That's the goal of Glen Pearsall, who shares dozens of classroom-tested strategies that lessen teachers' workload while increasing students' class participation and improving their understanding.

Readers will learn how to

• Refine their classroom questioning techniques to continually check students' progress and provide instant feedback;
• Encourage students to internalize learning goals so they better understand what is expected of them;
• Use fast, formative assessment strategies to check and correct during class time;
• Modify traditional summative-testing strategies to monitor student progress in a formative way;
• Speed up the correction process via student self-proofing, representative sampling, and helpful technology tools; and
• Engage students in becoming actively involved in assessing their own work.

Drawing from his own experience as a teacher and coach, Pearsall offers practical, real-world advice in the form of techniques that are both effective and sustainable in the everyday classroom. The result is smarter assessment—for both teachers and students.

About this title

About the Author

Glen Pearsall was a teacher at Eltham High School and a board member of the Curriculum Assessment Authority in Victoria, Australia. Glen is the author of the best-selling And Gladly Teach, Classroom Dynamics, and The Literature Toolbox and coauthor of Literature for Life and Work Right. Glen works throughout Australia as an educational consultant, specializing in feedback and assessment, workload reduction for teachers, and instructional practice. He has a particular interest in the work of graduate and preservice teachers and has worked as a research fellow and tutorial leader at the Centre for Youth Research, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Cambridge Education associate and a master class presenter for TTA and has a long association with the Teacher Learning Network and a wide range of teacher unions.

From the Back Cover

What if teachers could dramatically reduce the amount of time they spend reviewing and correcting student work and actually see better results in terms of student learning? That's the goal of Glen Pearsall, who shares dozens of classroom-tested strategies that lessen teachers' workload while increasing students' class participation and improving their understanding.

Readers will learn how to

• Refine their classroom questioning techniques to continually check students' progress and provide instant feedback;
• Encourage students to internalize learning goals so they better understand what is expected of them;
• Use fast, formative assessment strategies to check and correct during class time;
• Modify traditional summative-testing strategies to monitor student progress in a formative way;
• Speed up the correction process via student self-proofing, representative sampling, and helpful technology tools; and
• Engage students in becoming actively involved in assessing their own work.

Drawing from his own experience as a teacher and coach, Pearsall offers practical, real-world advice in the form of techniques that are both effective and sustainable in the everyday classroom. The result is smarter assessment--for both teachers and students.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 141662533X
• ISBN 13: 9781416625339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 211