Assessment

Developing Assessment-Capable Visible Learners, Grades K-12

Imagine students who describe their learning in these terms: “I know where I’m going, I have the tools I need for the journey, and I monitor my own progress.” Now imagine the extraordinary difference this type of ownership makes in...

Activities, Games, and Assessment Strategies for the World Language Classroom by Amy Buttner Zimmer

This bestselling book is filled with practical activities you can use to engage students in learning a world language. No matter what language and grade level you teach, you will love having a wide variety of tools at your disposal, from quick warm-up...

The Power of Investigating: Guiding Authentic Assessments by Julie V McGough

Children want to explore, dig, build, play, and wonder. To do this they need to touch, feel, see, observe, listen, manipulate, plan, and create. How does a teacher build and maintain a learning environment that will help students investigate meaningful...

What Every Middle School Teacher Needs to Know about Reading Tests: (From Someone Who Has Written Them) by Charles Fuhrken

Tests require a special kind of savvy, a kind of critical thinking and knowledge application that is not always a part of classroom reading experiences. Who better to teach you how to prepare your students for reading tests than someone who has written...

What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know about Reading Tests: From Someone Who Has Written Them by Charles Fuhrken

When he was a student struggling to concentrate on dreadfully boring passages of standardized reading tests, Charles Fuhrken remembers thinking to himself, "Who writes this stuff?" He had no idea that one day it would be him.

Pulling Together: Integrating Inquiry, Assessment, and Instruction in Today's English Classroom by Leyton Schnellert

Complete with diagrams, graphic organizers, classroom examples, assessment tools, and lists of core understandings, Pulling Together presents a comprehensive answer to the current big ideas in teaching—formative assessment, backward design, inquiry...

Informal Assessment Strategies: Asking Questions, Observing Students, and Planning Lessons That Promote Successful Interaction with Text by Beth Critchley Charlton

Informal Assessment Strategies explores the power of informed assessment practices on teachers, on instruction and, most of all, on the literacy success of students. Beth Charlton shows teachers how to use the results of assessment and how to find time...

Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli

Fair Isn't Always Equal answers that question and much more. Rick Wormeli offers the latest research and common sense thinking that teachers and administrators seek when it comes to assessment and grading in differentiated classes. Filled with real...

Evaluating Students: How Teachers Justify and Defend Their Marks to Parents, Students, and Principals by Alex Shirran

Teachers have far less autonomy in grading than they once did. In our high-stakes testing era, teachers need to be well-versed in the theory, practice, and politics of marking and be able to justify and defend their evaluation and teaching practices.

Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Reader Behind the Numbers by Clare Landrigan

Assessment in Perspective is about moving beyond the numbers and using assessment to find the stories they tell. This book helps teachers sort through the myriad of available assessments and use each to understand different facets of their readers. It...

The Four Roles of the Numerate Learner: Effective Reaching and Assessment Strategies to Help Students Think Differently about Mathematics by Mary Fiore

Effective mathematics instruction and numeracy development are a major focus in classrooms today. The Four Roles of the Numerate Learner introduces a framework (sense maker, skill user, thought communicator, and critical interpreter) that supports an...

The Formative Assessment Learning Cycle by Susan M Brookhart

In this handy guide, authors Brookhart and McTighe offer techniques, strategies, and student activities designed to improve the formative assessment process.