Assessing Learning in the Standards-Based Classroom: A Practical Guide for Teachers (Successfully integrate assessment practices that inform effective instruction for every student)

What do successful assessments look like? According to this team of authors, they provide meaningful assessment data that inform your instruction to help your students reach proficiency in priority standards. With the help of this practical guide, learn how to successfully integrate assessment with the standards-based teaching and learning process to improve student performance and evaluate instructional efficacy.

This book will help K–12 teachers and assessment coordinators:

• Gain clarity on the different roles of assessment throughout the instructional cycle
• Determine the timing and format of assessments to best support student learning
• Address test validity, reliability, and fairness
• Understand collaborative techniques for assessment consistency
• Access numerous sample assessments from the field

Contents: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Role and Purpose of Classroom Assessment
Chapter 2: Assessment Throughout the Instructional Cycle
Chapter 3: Assessment Practices for Consistency and Collaboration
Chapter 4: Technical Quality
Chapter 5: The Process of Scoring Assessments
Chapter 6: The Use of Data From Assessments
Chapter 7: Feedback to Students
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index

Jan K. Hoegh has been an educator for over 30 years and an author and associate for Marzano Resources since 2010. Prior to joining the Marzano team, she was a classroom teacher, building leader, professional development specialist, high school assistant principal, curriculum coordinator, and assistant director of statewide assessment for the Nebraska Department of Education, where her primary focus was Nebraska State Accountability test development. Jan has served on a variety of statewide and national standards and assessment committees and has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

Jeff Flygare is a former classroom teacher, English department chair, professional developer, and building leader. During his 26-year career teaching middle school drama and high school English in Academy District 20 in Colorado, he taught nearly every course in his school’s English department. Jeff developed classes in mythology, Shakespeare, philosophy, and comparative religions and worked with social studies colleagues to create an interdisciplinary class called World Studies, which he team-taught successfully for 17 years. He taught Advanced Placement (AP) English classes for 21 years and served as an AP English literature reader and table leader for Educational Testing Service for many years. He adopted standards-based learning in his classroom and successfully taught students at all levels in a standards-based environment for many years.

Tammy Heflebower, EdD, is a highly sought-after school leader and consultant with vast experience in urban, rural, and suburban districts throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, and the Netherlands. She has served as an award-winning classroom teacher, building leader, district leader, regional professional development director, and national and international trainer. She has also been an adjunct professor of curriculum, instruction, and assessment at several universities and a prominent member and leader of numerous statewide and national educational organizations.

Philip B. Warrick, EdD, spent the first 25 years of his education career as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent and has experience leading schools in the states of Nebraska and Texas. He was named 1998 Nebraska Outstanding New Principal of the Year and was the 2005 Nebraska State High School Principal of the Year. In 2003, he was one of the initial participants to attend the Nebraska Educational Leadership Institute, conducted by the Gallup Corporation at Gallup University in Omaha. In 2008, Phil was hired as the campus principal at Round Rock High School in Round Rock, Texas. In 2010, he was invited to be an inaugural participant in the Texas Principals’ Visioning Institute, where he collaborated with other principals from the state of Texas to develop a vision for effective practices in Texas schools. In 2011, Phil joined the Solution Tree–Marzano Resources team. He works as an author and global presenter in the areas of High Reliability Schools, instruction and instructional coaching, assessment, grading, and collaborative teaming.