Balanced Assessment: From Formative to Summative

Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own repertoire of formative and summative assessments to monitor, grade, and make inferences about a student's ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide opportunities to reflect and plan action steps.

Benefits:

• Learn how teacher teams can analyze standards to make them more manageable and plan a logical instructional sequence.
• Understand formative and summative assessments and how they complement each other.
• Create checklists and rubrics.
• Explore how to make the curriculum more engaging through authentic performance tasks.
• Gain numerous examples of performance tasks, checklists, and rubrics from different subject areas and grade levels.
• Find ways to differentiate instruction.
• Get more informal, "quick and easy" assessment strategies.
• Recognize the difference between assessment and evaluation.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment: Begin With the End in Mind
Chapter 2: The Balanced Assessment Model: When Formative Meets Summative
Chapter 3: Common Assessments: A Community of Assessors
Chapter 4: Performance Tasks: The Key to an Engaging Curriculum
Chapter 5: Checklists: Progressions of Learning
Chapter 6: Rubrics: All Roads Lead to the Standards
Chapter 7: Formative Assessment Tools: Real Time and Real Fast
Chapter 8: Summative Assessment and Evaluation: The Last Judgment

Kay Burke works with her colleagues at Kay Burke & Associates to present professional development workshops for teachers and administrators on standards-based teaching and learning, formative assessment, and classroom management. She received her undergraduate degree from Florida Atlantic University, her master's degree from the University of Central Florida, her educational specialist degree from Emory University, her PhD from Georgia State University, and her administration certification from the University of Georgia. Kay served as an award-winning English teacher, department chairperson, dean of students, mentor, and administrator in Florida and Georgia for twenty years. She also was the director of the field-based master s program sponsored by the International Renewal Institute (IRI/SkyLight) and Saint Xavier University in Illinois. Since 1990, Kay has designed and conducted professional development workshops and presented at conferences of the National Staff Development Council (NSDC), the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), Solution Tree, and the International Reading Association (IRA), as well as at international conferences in Canada and Australia. Kay has written or edited thirteen books on standards-based learning, formative assessment, classroom management, student and professional portfolios, and mentoring. Her best-selling books include How to Assess Authentic Learning (5th ed.); What to Do with the Kid Who . . . ; Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline, and Responsibility in the Classroom (3rd ed.); The Portfolio Connection: Student Work Linked to Standards (3rd ed.); and From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K-8, which was a finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishing in 2007.