Looking Together at Student Work: A Companion Guide to Assessing Student Learning (Series on School Reform)

The authors, whose work at Harvard Project Zero, the Coalition of Essential Schools, and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform has placed them at the forefront of new assessment strategies, have created a practical, user-friendly guide to provide teachers with strategies and resources for working together to examine and discuss student work such as science projects, essays, art work, math problems, and more. Written for teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, staff developers, and researchers, this book offers:

• A clear process for starting and sustaining collaborative discussions of student work and student learning
• Detailed descriptions of two kinds of structured conversations (the Tuning Protocol and the Collaborative Assessment Conference) that guide discussion of student work
• Real examples from schools that have developed their own ways of looking collaboratively at student work
• A useful list of resources and publications that can provide further help.

Tina Blythe is director of faculty development at the Boston Architectural College and adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. David Allen is a senior research associate at the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST) at Teachers College, Columbia University. Barbara Schieffelin Powell is an educational consultant.