Assessing Student Learning: From Grading to Understanding (the series on school reform)

Featuring contributions from some of today’s leading educators, this resource provides a range of practical, replicable processes for collaboratively examining student work, including writing samples, visual work, portfolios, and exhibitions. This uniquely practical text presents vivid descriptions of teachers engaged in collaborative processes in actual school settings, from early elementary through high school. Reporting on the work of several of the most important school change networks and institutes--and incorporating the perspectives of education researchers, teacher educators, administrators, and teachers―this volume builds a powerful argument for refocusing professional development on the collaborative and reflective examination of authentic student work, rather than relying on representations of student learning such as test scores and grades.