Handbook for Collaborative Common Assessments: Tools for Design, Delivery, and Data Analysis (Practical Measures for Improving Your Collaborative Common Assessment Process)

When educators participate fully in the consistent and systematic collaborative common assessment process, teachers, learners, and schools all thrive. A companion to the assessment book Collaborative Common Assessments by Cassandra Erkens, this practical handbook presents measures teams can take to improve their collaborative common assessments. Each chapter features reflection questions as well as tools and protocols for implementing each phase of the process.

Use this practical assessment book to improve your collaborative common assessment process:

• Gain a deeper understanding of the collaborative assessment process.
• Discover how to ensure the accuracy and reliability of collaborative common assessments in analyzing student assessment data.
• Identify student misconceptions in the classroom to better plan educational interventions and collaborative instruction.
• Answer reflection questions to ensure collaborative teams are concentrating on the right work.

Contents:
Introduction: Teamwork. Instruction. Results.
Chapter 1: Foundational Concepts of Collaborative Common Assessment
Chapter 2: Evidence and Research Supporting the Collaborative Common Assessment Process
Chapter 3: The Preparation Phase
Chapter 4: The Design Phase
Chapter 5: The Delivery Phase
Chapter 6: The Data Phase
Chapter 7: The Re-Engagement Phase
Epilogue
References and Resources

Cassandra Erkens is a presenter, facilitator, coach, trainer of trainers, keynote speaker, author, and above all, a teacher. She presents nationally and internationally on assessment, instruction, school improvement, and professional learning communities.

Cassandra has served as an adjunct faculty member at Hamline and Cardinal Stritch universities, where she took teachers through graduate education courses. She has authored and coauthored a wide array of published trainings, and she has designed and delivered the training of trainers programs for two major education-based companies.

As an educator and recognized leader, Cassandra has served as a senior high school English teacher, a director of staff development at the district level, a regional school improvement facilitator, and a director of staff and organization development in the private sector.

To learn more about Cassandra's work, visit allthingsassessment.info or follow @cerkens on Twitter.

To book Cassandra Erkens for professional development, contact pd@SolutionTree.com.