The Teacher as Assessment Leader, Second Edition (Practical strategies for utilizing formative assessment) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1962188515 ISBN 13: 9781962188517

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2025

Synopsis

In The Teacher as Assessment Leader, Second Edition, editor Thomas R. Guskey and expert contributors offer research-backed strategies for re-envisioning assessment to enhance student learning and teacher instruction. The authors provide actionable steps, practical examples, and strategies for utilizing formative assessments. These strategies promote a growth mindset, proficiency, self-regulation, and student ownership, ultimately fostering improved instructional effectiveness and student achievement.

K–12 teachers can use this book to:

• Adopt new perspectives on assessment’s role in guiding student learning
• Employ practical strategies to improve instruction and enhance student achievement
• Promote regular assessment analysis to enhance instructional strategies
• Encourage student self-efficacy in identifying and pursuing learning goals
• Lead and collaborate with colleagues in developing more effective, practical assessments and alternative instructional strategies

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Leading the Assessment Revolution From Within
Chapter 2: Harvesting Assessment Evidence to Yield Effective Responses
Chapter 3: Assessing Beyond the Labels
Chapter 4: Sharing Leadership to Align Assessment Practices Across the School
Chapter 5: Using Data as a Flashlight, Not a Hammer, to Illuminate Evidence That Matters
Chapter 6: Developing Self-Regulatory Learners Through Assessment
Chapter 7: Designing Assessments to Accelerate Learning
Chapter 8: Approaching Learning and Assessment as a Subtle Curator
Chapter 9: Leading the Way to Student Success

About this title

About the Author

Thomas R. Guskey, PhD, is professor emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, where he served as department chair, head of the Educational Psychology Area Committee, and president of the faculty council. He has been a visiting professor at ten other universities in the United States and a visiting scholar at universities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Dr. Guskey began his career in education as a middle school teacher and earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago under the direction of Professor Benjamin S. Bloom. He served as an administrator in Chicago Public Schools before becoming the first director of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, a national research center.
Dr. Guskey is the author or editor of thirty award-winning books and more than three hundred book chapters, articles, and professional papers on educational measurement, evaluation, assessment, grading, and professional learning. His articles have appeared in prominent research journals, including the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, and the Review of Educational Research, as well as practitioner publications such as Education Week, Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, The Learning Professional, and School Administrator.
He served on the policy research team of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future and on the task force to develop the Standards for Professional Learning. He also has been featured on the National Public Radio programs Talk of the Nation and Morning Edition.
Dr. Guskey has won numerous awards for his work in education. For his outstanding scholarship, he was named a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the association’s highest honor. He also received the association’s prestigious Relating Research to Practice Award. He was awarded the Contribution to the Field Award by Learning Forward, the Jason Millman Award by the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness, the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Association of Educational Publishers, and the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Perhaps most uniquely, in the 160-year history of his undergraduate institution, Thiel College, he is the only graduate to receive the Outstanding Alumnus Award, be inducted into the Thiel College Athletics Hall of Fame, and be awarded an honorary doctorate degree.
Dr. Guskey’s work is dedicated to helping teachers and school leaders use quality educational research to help all their students learn well and gain the many valuable benefits of that success.
To learn more about Dr. Guskey’s work, visit http://tguskey.com or follow @tguskey on X.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1962188515
• ISBN 13: 9781962188517
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Thomas R. Guskey