Design in Five: Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice - Softcover

Nicole Dimich Vagle; Foreword By Douglas Reeves

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936764954 ISBN 13: 9781936764952

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2014

Synopsis

Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase assessment design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging. Evaluate whether your current assessments meet the design criteria, and discover how to use this process collaboratively with your team.

Benefits

- Create engaging assessments that accurately report students progress.

- Design assessments that help students learn from their mistakes and motivate them to improve.

- Work collaboratively to analyze standards and create common assessments.

- Evaluate the cognitive level of assessment items and tasks.

- Gain access to reproducibles and other recommended resources to deepen your understanding of assessment.

About this title

About the Author

Nicole Dimich Vagle s passion for education and lifelong learning has led her to extensively explore, facilitate, and implement innovative practices in school transformation. Nicole works with elementary and secondary educators in presentations, trainings, and consultations in the spirit of providing students with engaging and inspiring learning experiences.

As a middle and high school English teacher, Nicole teamed with math, social studies, and science teachers. Pursuing her belief in the powerful impact teacher leaders have in schools and districts, she later became a program evaluator and trainer at the Princeton Center for Leadership Training in New Jersey.

Nicole partners with Spring Lake Park Schools in Minnesota, where she supports the design of engaging and rigorous instruction and assessment in elementary, middle, and high schools. She has produced a training DVD that illustrates a protocol for examining the effectiveness of assessments and student learning and continues to work with schools and districts nationwide to increase their understanding of developing and using assessments to promote student learning and engagement. A featured presenter at conferences throughout North America, Nicole empowers educators to build capacity for and implement formative assessment practices, common assessment design and analysis, data-driven decisions, student work protocols, and motivational strategies.

Nicole is the author, along with Carolyn Chapman, of Motivating Students: 25 Strategies to Light the Fire of Engagement. She is also the author of two chapters in assessment anthologies Inspiring and Requiring Learning in Teacher as Assessment Leader and Finding Meaning in Numbers in Principal as Assessment Leader.

Nicole earned a master of arts in human development from Saint Mary s University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a bachelor of arts in English and psychology from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She and her husband, Mark, have three children, Maya, Rhys, and Chase, and live in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Review

This book thoughtfully explores the work of creating assessments purposely designed to make a difference in student learning. Using its practical five-step process, teachers can easily move from unpacking rigorous standards to writing and administering effective assessments that will provide usable information about what to do next in the classroom. The book also contains creative and realistic suggestions about how to use these results to engage students in their own learning. Practitioners will truly value the ease design in five brings to their work with assessment.

Christine Jakicic, EdD, author and educator

--Christine Jakicic, EdD, author and educator

Design in Five provides a powerful opportunity for exponential learning team growth. Its goals of collaborative engagement, understanding standards, balanced assessment, targeting learning, and creating invested and engaged scholars will inspire hope in students and empower teachers. This is an essential tool for continuing to build and influence our learning communities.

--Randall Peterson, Principal, Eastview High School, Apple Valley, Minnesota

Design in Five provides a powerful opportunity for exponential learning team growth. Its goals of collaborative engagement, understanding standards, balanced assessment, targeting learning, and creating invested and engaged scholars will inspire hope in students and empower teachers. This is an essential tool for continuing to build and influence our learning communities.

--Randall Peterson, Principal, Eastview High School, Apple Valley, Minnesota

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1936764954
• ISBN 13: 9781936764952
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176