Authentic Assessments For The English Classroom

Author : Joanna Dolgin,Kim Kelly
Publisher : National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 0814102328

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Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom by Joanna Dolgin,Kim Kelly Pdf

Joanna Dolgin, Kim Kelly, and Sarvenaz Zelkha offer real-world examples, sample student work, step-by-step instructions, and handouts to help teachers incorporate authentic forms of assessment into the middle and high school curriculum. This practical guide is designed to help English language arts teachers incorporate authentic forms of assessment into the middle and high school curriculum. Grounded in the latest theories, Joanna Dolgin, Kim Kelly, and Sarvenaz Zelkha offer real-world examples, sample student work, step-by-step instructions, and handouts to help teachers: Incorporate independent reading and authentic assessments through lessons, handouts, and examples of student work; facilitate a schoolwide end-of-semester roundtable assessment and portfolio presentations for middle and high school students and visitors; and design twelfth-grade assessments that draw on the independent reading and critical writing experiences students have had throughout their academic careers. The book also provides sample curriculum and highlights the assessment tools of three different teachers who have extensive experience teaching sixth through twelfth grade. Tips are offered on developing a yearlong curriculum focused on social, political, and emotional relevancy to students' lives, as well as cultivating the skills needed to succeed on standardized tests.

Author : J. Michael O'Malley,Lorraine Valdez Pierce
Publisher : Longman
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0201591510

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Authentic Assessment for English Language Learners by J. Michael O'Malley,Lorraine Valdez Pierce Pdf

This practical resource book will familiarize teachers, staff developers, and administrators with the latest thinking on alternatives to traditional assessment. It will prepare them to implement authentic assessment in the ESL/bilingual classroom and to incorporate it into instructional planning.

Author : Linda Darling-Hammond,Beverly F. Falk,Jacqueline Ancess
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807776360

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Authentic Assessment in Action by Linda Darling-Hammond,Beverly F. Falk,Jacqueline Ancess Pdf

This book examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary schools, how five schools have developed “authentic,” performance-based assessments of students’ learning, and how this work has interacted with and influenced the teaching and learning experiences students encounter in school. This important and timely book reveals the changing dynamics of classroom life as it moves from more traditional pedagogy to one that asks students to master intellectual and practical skills that are eminently transferable to “real-life” social settings and workplaces. “The issue of assessment comes first, but we see in the following case studies how it becomes powerfully enveloped in the processes of learning and teaching, of informing students, teachers, parents, and others of ‘how the children are doing.’ The portraits explicitly and implicitly suggest a deep, fair, and defensible way to answer the question ‘How’m I doing?’ in a manner that helps this child and eventually every child.” —From the Foreword by Theodore R. Sizer “Informative and thought provoking.” —American Journal of Education

Author : David Sherrin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429536700

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Authentic Assessment in Social Studies by David Sherrin Pdf

This engaging book will show you how to move beyond tests and essay writing to implement authentic assessments in your middle or high school social studies classroom. Award-winning teacher David Sherrin explains the value of authentic assessments and offers practical ways to get started and dive deeper in your own practice. You’ll be encouraged and inspired by the real-life stories of classroom successes and failures that illustrate the points throughout the book. The chapters cover a range of categories, including different types of written, creative, and civic action assessments. The book includes: planning charts and rubrics showing how to use, grade, and give feedback on assessments so they truly aid student learning and progress specific examples, useful tips, and ready-to-go instructions that you can use immediately with your class open-ended assessments encourage scaffolding or adaptation for individual or group work to fit your classroom needs You will learn how to personalize instruction and provide students with avenues for creativity and the types of learning experiences they need to be prepared for a complex world.

Author : Kay Burke
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452272382

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How to Assess Authentic Learning by Kay Burke Pdf

Create assessments that meet state standards and target students’ learning needs! In this revised edition of her bestseller, Kay Burke provides a wide range of easy-to-implement alternative assessments that address today’s accountability requirements. Designed for use across all content areas, these formative assessments are rooted in the language of state standards and emphasize differentiating instruction to meet students’ diverse learning needs. Updated research and examples help K–12 teachers: Build Response to Intervention checklists for struggling students Develop unit plans using differentiated learning and assessment strategies Create portfolios that emphasize metacognition Design performance tasks that motivate and engage students Construct rubrics that describe indicators of quality work Create tests that focus on higher-order thinking skills

Author : Lorraine Valdez Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026620380

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Assessing English Language Learners by Lorraine Valdez Pierce Pdf

Author : Faye Brownlie,Catherine Feniak,Vicki McCarthy
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1553790200

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Instruction and Assessment of ESL Learners by Faye Brownlie,Catherine Feniak,Vicki McCarthy Pdf

This one-of-a-kind resource offers solutions for teachers who provide exemplary instruction to students from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Using real classroom experiences and current research, the authors focus on the needs of ESL learners in the regular classroom. The activities and assessment tools can be used by classroom teachers and ESL teachers working alone or together. In this book, you will find: ways to incorporate English and the home languages of the ESL students into the same lesson suggestions for informal individual and group assessments for reading, writing, and oral language ideas for welcoming new ESL students examples of criteria that can be used for the assessment of ESL students open-ended lessons and units for all learners, with accompanying reproducible masters

Author : Glayol V. Ekbatani,Herbert D. Pierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135675516

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Learner-directed Assessment in Esl by Glayol V. Ekbatani,Herbert D. Pierson Pdf

This text integrates the theory and practice of learner-based assessment. Written in response to two recent movements in language teaching--learner-centered teaching and a renewed interest in authenticity in language testing--it examines the relationship between the language learner and language assessment processes, and promotes approaches to assessment that involve the learner in the testing process. Particular attention is given to issues of reliability and validity. Grounded in current pedagogical applications of authentic assessment measures, this volume is intended for and eminently accessible to classroom teachers and program directors looking for ways to include their students in the evaluation process, graduate students, and professional language testers seeking authenticity in assessment and desiring to create more interactive evaluation tools.

Author : Patricia Smiley,Trudy Salsberry
Publisher : Eye On Education
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Elementary school administration
ISBN : 9781596670303

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Effective Schooling for English Language Learners by Patricia Smiley,Trudy Salsberry Pdf

Organized around a series of "Critical Questions" and "Leadership Challenges," this book offers knowledge and expertise about the elementary principal's leadership role in- -effective instructional strategies -student assessment -school climate -parent involvement -and other ways to improve the academic achievement of English Language learners.

Author : Katherine Luongo-Orlando
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Competency-based education
ISBN : 9781551381527

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Authentic Assessment by Katherine Luongo-Orlando Pdf

Authentic Assessment combines performance tasks that are relevant to students' lives with the need for accountability. The book explores common mandated language arts expectations and shows teachers how to choose meaningful activities that will guide students toward achieving important learning outcomes. This practical approach to task design includes suggestions for planning through evaluating and generating a mark, as well as sensible ways to use assessment results to improve instructional practice. The book presents: a thorough, constructive background for authentic assessment of student work; clear definitions of terms related to assessment and evaluation; a step-by-step process for developing performance-based tasks; strategies for relating tasks to goals and expectations; numerous activities that can be used as is or adapted for specific needs. Designed for the busy teacher, the book includes ready-to-copy and use planning sheets, rubrics, and student surveys. Excellent samples of student work based on performance tasks complement this timely book.

Author : IRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment,International Reading Association,National Council of Teachers of English
Publisher : International Reading Assoc.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780872077768

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Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing by IRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment,International Reading Association,National Council of Teachers of English Pdf

With this updated document, IRA and NCTE reaffirm their position that the primary purpose of assessment must be to improve teaching and learning for all students. Eleven core standards are presented and explained, and a helpful glossary makes this document suitable not only for educators but for parents, policymakers, school board members, and other stakeholders. Case studies of large-scale national tests and smaller scale classroom assessments (particularly in the context of RTI, or Response to Intervention) are used to highlight how assessments in use today do or do not meet the standards.

Author : Bruce B. Frey
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483321288

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Modern Classroom Assessment by Bruce B. Frey Pdf

Modern Classroom Assessment offers an applied, student-centered guide to the major research-based approaches to assessment in today’s modern classroom. Rather than simply list basic assessment formats with a few examples, as many textbooks do, award-winning professor and scholar Bruce Frey’s book fully explores all five key approaches for teacher-designed assessment—Traditional Paper-and-Pencil, Performance-Based Assessment, Formative Assessment, Universal Test Design, and Authentic Assessment —while making abstract concepts and guidelines clear with hundreds of real-world illustrations and examples of what actual teachers do. Offering a variety of engaging learning tools and realistic stories from the classroom, this text will give any reader a strong foundation for designing modern assessments in their own classrooms.

Author : Diane K. Brantley
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015066889141

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Instructional Assessment of English Language Learners in the K-8 Classroom by Diane K. Brantley Pdf

This classroom-ready resource provides teachers in grades K-8 with specific assessments that can be administered to English language learners within the regular classroom. Long overdue and with a focus on the needs of English language learners (ELLs) within the classroom, Instructional Assessment of English Language Learners is a unique book designed to teach readers the basic concepts of assessing English. Today's education courses place an increasing emphasis on the regular classroom teacher to instruct and assess English language learners. Yet, classroom teachers have few resources available to them in regard to assessing ELLs within their classrooms. This book helps readers master the assessments to be administered to English learners and cover a range of literacy skills deemed necessary for English language acquisition and reproduction, while also assessing the student's literacy skills in their primary language. The overarching goal of this book is to enable teachers to acquire a deep understanding of the value of instructional assessment for ELLs and the importance of evaluating the results to provide the students with immediate, appropriate and meaningful instruction. The book addresses the specific areas of language arts related to the development, acquisition, and reproduction of the English language: oral language development and vocabulary; concepts of print and the alphabetic strategies; word recognition and word identification strategies; reading fluency; reading comprehension; written language development and spelling; content area literacy; procedural knowledge; and problem-solving strategies. The strategies presented in this text are research-based and are known to increase reading comprehension for ELLs.

Author : Diane Hart
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015026954589

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Authentic Assessment by Diane Hart Pdf

An innovative guidebook that takes you beyond the usual assessment buzzwords to an understanding of why educators are searching for alternatives to standard assessment procedures.

Author : Lorna M. Earl
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452242972

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Assessment as Learning by Lorna M. Earl Pdf

Using clear explanations and cases, this must-have resource shows how formative assessment can improve student learning. Included are lesson plans and ideas for easy implementation.