This book explores the importance of effective classroom assessment to student achievement and the role of school leaders to model and spark positive change through building teacher literacy, providing targeted professional development, acquiring appropriate technology, and more. With insights from expert practitioners, this book helps schools make the shift to best-practice assessment for districtwide improvements in student learning.
Benefits:
- Identify the characteristics of an effective, balanced assessment system.
- Find insights into how principals can best support improved assessment practice in the classroom.
- Create professional development opportunities that build schoolwide assessment literacy.
- Learn about assessment technology tools, including what to look for, how to use them, and what to expect from staff.
- Incorporate data analysis that staff will commit to and use to improve student learning.
- Understand the advantages of implementing standards-based grading and reporting.
- Gain strategies for using assessment processes to engage learners at risk.
Contents:
Part One: Laying the Foundation of Assessment Literacy
Chapter 1: Paving the Way for an Assessment-Rich Culture
Chapter 2: Build, Promote, Guide, Provide, Monitor: Action Words for Principals as Instructional Leaders in Assessment
Chapter 3: A Principal's Guide to Assessment
Chapter 4: Building Assessment Expertise Through Twenty-First-Century Professional Development
Chapter 5: A Seven-Module Plan to Build Teacher Knowledge of Balanced Assessment
Part Two: Collecting, Interpreting, and Reporting Data
Chapter 6: Plug Us In, Please: Using Digital Tools for Data Collection
Chapter 7: Finding Meaning in the Numbers
Chapter 8: The Courage to Implement Standards-Based Report Cards
Part Three: Assessing Students at Risk
Chapter 9: Lowering High School Failure Rates
Chapter 10: Assessing the Student at Risk: A New Look at School-Based Credit Recovery
Chapter 11: Formative Assessment, Transformative Relationships
Editor: Thomas R. Guskey, PhD, is senior research scholar at the University of Louisville and professor emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he began his career in education as a middle school teacher and later served as a school administrator in the Chicago Public Schools.
He was the first director of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, a national educational research center. Dr. Guskey served on the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, the task force to develop National Standards for Staff Development, was named a fellow in the American Educational Research Association, and was also awarded the association's prestigious Relating Research to Practice Award.
He is the author/editor of 25 award-winning books and more than 250 book chapters and articles. His most recent books include What We Know About Grading (with Brookhart, 2019); On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting (2015); Reaching the Highest Standard in Professional Learning: Data (with Roy & Von Frank, 2014); Answers to Essential Questions about Standards, Assessments, Grading, and Reporting (with Jung, 2013); and Benjamin S. Bloom: Portraits of an Educator (2012).
Contributors: Cassandra Erkens, William M. Ferriter, Tammy Heflebower, Tom Hierck, Charles Hinman, Susan B. Huff, Chris Jakicic, Dennis King, Ainsley B. Rose, Nicole Dimich Vagle, and Mark Weichel
