How to Assess Authentic Learning - Softcover

Burke, Kathleen B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575171511 ISBN 13: 9781575171517

Publisher: Corwin, 1999

Synopsis

Formerly a SkyLight publication.

Assessment has emerged as one of the major components in the restructured school. "Alternative," "performance," and "authentic assessment" are on the lips of every educator, administrator, and consultant in the country.

Renowned author and educator Dr. Kay Burke supplies teachers with a wide range of alternative assessments that can be implemented easily and immediately into their classrooms, and takes readers step-by-step in building a conceptual understanding of this approach and demonstrates practical applications of assessment strategies.

Teachers will gain insight into:

• Building observation checklists
• What metacognitive reflection is and how to use it
• Developing a unit plan using a multiple intelligences grid
• Designing performance tasks and rubrics
• When and where to use learning logs and journals
• New ways to assess student interviews and conferences
• A more effective approach to using grades
• Constructing better teacher-made tests

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The time has come for poor test-takers to realize that the ability to perform well on examinations is not always an accurate assessment of understanding and academic capability. Standardized tests measure one's ability to perform under stress, not one's ability to learn and retain information. As researchers gain new knowledge about how the brain works and how people acquire understanding, educators are expanding their repertoire of assessment tools. And as communities work toward developing mindful schools, they also must reorient their concepts about curriculum, policies, organization of time, and assessment strategies. Performance tasks, portfolio development, and scoring rubrics are just a few of the assessment tools that are now being implemented to measure learning. In this volume, Kay Burke presents a wide range of alternative forms of assessment in a meaningful and practical format. Learning logs, reflective journals, graphic organizers, interviews, and peer editing are only some of the authentic assessments offered in this book which help learners develop lifelong learning and problem-solving skills.

Educators, administrators, school psychologists, curriculum planners, and parents. A Skylight Professional Book.

About the Author:

Kay Burke has served as an award-winning classroom teacher and a school administrator, university instructor, and international professional developer. She works with Kay Burke & Associates, LLC, to provide workshops for teachers and administrators in standards-based learning, performance assessment, classroom management, mentoring, and portfolio development. For the past 18 years, Burke has presented at state and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NAESP, NASSP, NMSA, and IRA as well as international conferences in Canada and Australia. She is the author of 10 professional development books and coauthor of a college textbook on assessment. Corwin Press published Burke′s best-selling From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K–8 (2006), a 2007 finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing presented by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other books published by Corwin Press include How to Assess Authentic Learning, Fourth Edition (2005) and What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom (Third Edition).

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1575171511
• ISBN 13: 9781575171517
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 214