Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase 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.
Contents:
Foreword by Douglas Reeves
Introduction
Chapter 1: Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement
Chapter 2: Analyzing the Standards and Sketching Out Learning Goals
Chapter 3: Crafting an Assessment Plan
Chapter 4: Creating the Assessment and Gathering the Materials
Chapter 5: Determining Student Investment and the Reporting Method
Chapter 6: Collaborating to Create Assessments
Epilogue: Building Hope
Appendix: Reproducibles
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.
