The Teacher as Assessment Leader

Finalist--Association of Educational Publishers 2010 Distinguished Achievement Award

Discover how to improve student learning through the power of effective assessment, and realize your power to transform education from inside the classroom. Meaningful examples, expert research, and real-life experiences illustrate the capacity and responsibility every educator has to ignite positive change. Packed with practical strategies from expert practitioners for designing, analyzing, and using assessments, this book shows how to turn best practices into usable solutions.

Benefits:

• Read an overview of the most critical issues in classroom assessment, in teacher-friendly terms.
• Acquire a model for "unpacking" standards into student-friendly language and aligned assessments.
• Learn about models for matching assessment format to content.
• Gain strategies for creating proficiency level descriptions to improve item design and assessment quality.
• Use descriptive feedback that will motivate students to engage in the learning process.
• Understand critical issues in assessing English language learners and students with special needs.
• Get a process for teachers of uncommon courses to tap the power of common assessments.

Contents:
Part One: Laying the Foundation of Assessment Literacy
Chapter 1: Developing Our Assessment Literacy
Chapter 2: Assessment That Makes Sense
Chapter 3: Yes, I Can: Responsible Assessment in an Era of Accountability

Part Two: Collecting, Interpreting, and Reporting Data
Chapter 4: Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Write Me a Test
Chapter 5: Proficiency: More Than a Grade
Chapter 6: Using Common Assessments in Uncommon Courses
Chapter 7: Creating Equity in Classroom Assessment for English Language Learners and Students With Special Needs

Part Three: Involving Students in Assessment
Chapter 8: Creating Confident, Capable Learners
Chapter 9: Inspiring and Requiring Action
Chapter 10: Engaging the Nintendo Generation
Chapter 11: Differentiated Pathways to Success

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, Chris Jakicic, Sharon V. Kramer, Jeffry Overlie, Ainsley B. Rose, Nicole Dimich Vagle, Adam Young, and Michelle Goodwin