Leading Student Assessment

Author : Charles F. Webber,Judy L. Lupart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 940071727X

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Leading Student Assessment by Charles F. Webber,Judy L. Lupart Pdf

This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The authors call for boundary-breaking assessment that reflects clear understandings of the purposes of assessment, a balance of assessment creativity and realism, the ability to detect solutions for assessment challenges, and the capacity to question and imagine assessment alternatives. The 14 chapters offer school and district educators, policy makers, researchers, and university teacher preparation faculty with a comprehensive, current overview of the state and art of student assessment. Key questions are posed about assessment and critical challenges are presented along with sound evidence-based solutions. Student assessment is analyzed in terms of its relationship with classroom instructional practices and large-scale testing programs. Formative and summative assessments are compared and contrasted. The role of psychological assessment in informing classroom practices is profiled along with the need for student voice in fair assessment practices. Readers will be challenged to consider the ecology of student assessment, that is, the impact of assessment in classrooms and schools through to the macro level of globalized societies. The underpinning values and assumptions of student assessment are highlighted. Finally, a rationale is offered for reconceptualizing and redefining assessment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:838982496

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Leading Student Assessment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shelleyann Scott,Donald E. Scott,Charles F. Webber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319233987

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Assessment in Education by Shelleyann Scott,Donald E. Scott,Charles F. Webber Pdf

This book provides key insights into how educational leaders can successfully navigate the turbulence of political debate surrounding leading student assessment and professionalised practice. Given the highly politicised nature of assessment, it addresses leaders and aspiring leaders who are open to being challenged, willing to explore controversy, and capable of engaging in informed critical discourse. The book presents the macro concepts that these audiences must have to guide optimal assessment policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters highlight important assessment purposes and models, including intended and unintended effects of assessment in a globalised context. The book provides opportunities to explore cultural similarities and particularities. It invites readers to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about ourselves and colleagues in other settings. The chapters highlight the cultural clashes that may occur when cross-cultural borrowing of assessment strategies, policies, and tools takes place. However, authors also encourage sophisticated critical analyses of potential lessons that may be drawn from other contexts and systems. Readers will encounter challenges from authors to deconstruct their assessment values, beliefs, and preconceptions. Indeed, one purpose of the book is to destabilise certainties about assessment that prevail and to embrace the assessment possibilities that can emerge from cognitive dissonance.

Author : Anne Davies,Sandra Herbst,Beth Parrott Reynolds
Publisher : Solution Tree
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 1935543954

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Leading the Way to Assessment for Learning by Anne Davies,Sandra Herbst,Beth Parrott Reynolds Pdf

Rev. ed. of: Leading the way to making classroom assessment work., c2008.

Author : Steve Chappuis,Carol Commodore,Rick Stiggins
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506354231

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Balanced Assessment Systems by Steve Chappuis,Carol Commodore,Rick Stiggins Pdf

Build a balanced assessment system and support ESSA requirements! The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) increases assessment flexibility and responsibilities for states and districts, and this comprehensive guide helps leaders meet and succeed that challenge. Authors Chappuis, Commodore and Stiggins have helped thousands of teachers, principals and other educational leaders in becoming assessment-literate and developing assessment systems built on quality assessment. Readers will learn how to: Develop balance in an assessment system by combining formative and summative approaches, providing insight on students’ progress Strengthen classroom-based assessment and involve students in self-assessment

Author : Marge Scherer
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416622925

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On Formative Assessment by Marge Scherer Pdf

This collection of articles from Educational Leadership pulls together some of the best pieces on formative assessment and feedback that will help educators understand how to best use the data they have at their fingertips. The authors tell fellow educators about how to use formative assessment to shape the next phase of instruction and how to look for patterns in students’ assessments and assignments—the mistakes students frequently make and the signals that tell what individuals need, what groups of kids need, and what the whole class needs.

Author : Anne Davies,Sandra Herbst-Luedtke,Beth Parrott Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 098678513X

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Leading the Way to Assessment for Learning by Anne Davies,Sandra Herbst-Luedtke,Beth Parrott Reynolds Pdf

Author : Marge Scherer
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416623014

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On Formative Assessment by Marge Scherer Pdf

This collection of articles from Educational Leadership pulls together some of the best pieces on formative assessment and feedback that will help educators understand how to best use the data they have at their fingertips. The authors tell fellow educators about how to use formative assessment to shape the next phase of instruction and how to look for patterns in students' assessments and assignments—the mistakes students frequently make and the signals that tell what individuals need, what groups of kids need, and what the whole class needs.

Author : Lorna M. Earl
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,5 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.

Author : Steve Chappuis,Carol Commodore,Rick Stiggins
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506354217

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Balanced Assessment Systems by Steve Chappuis,Carol Commodore,Rick Stiggins Pdf

Build a balanced assessment system and support ESSA requirements! The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) increases assessment flexibility and responsibilities for states and districts, and this comprehensive guide helps leaders meet and succeed that challenge. Authors Chappuis, Commodore and Stiggins have helped thousands of teachers, principals and other educational leaders in becoming assessment-literate and developing assessment systems built on quality assessment. Readers will learn how to: Develop balance in an assessment system by combining formative and summative approaches, providing insight on students’ progress Strengthen classroom-based assessment and involve students in self-assessment

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Foundations of Assessment
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309293228

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Knowing What Students Know by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Foundations of Assessment Pdf

Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates.

Author : Shelleyann Scott,Donald E. Scott,Charles F. Webber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319233475

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Leadership of Assessment, Inclusion, and Learning by Shelleyann Scott,Donald E. Scott,Charles F. Webber Pdf

This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities and cultures. Chapters focus on issues that directly impact the educational lives of teachers, students, parents, and caregivers. Importantly, the confluence of assessment practices and community expectations also are highlighted. Assessment is highly politicised in contemporary society and this book will both confirm and challenge readers’ beliefs and practices. Indeed, discerning readers will understand that the chapters offer them a bridge from many established assessment paradigms to pragmatic, ethical solutions that align with current expectations for schools and districts. In Part One, readers engage with concepts and skills needed by school learning leaders to guide optimal assessment practices. Part Two delves into student assessment within and across disciplines. Part Three provides pragmatic approaches that address assessment in the context of inclusive intercultural education, pluralism, and globalisation.

Author : Karen L. Sanzo,Steve Myran,John Caggiano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317670926

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Formative Assessment Leadership by Karen L. Sanzo,Steve Myran,John Caggiano Pdf

This exciting new book is for school leaders who are interested in transforming their school and district practices. Discussing issues that impact students, teachers within their classrooms, and the larger school community, Formative Assessment Leadership explores how leaders can implement effective professional development and positive change in their schools. Breaking down formative assessment into manageable, understandable parts, the authors provide: An exploration of what formative data-based decision making looks like Scaffolding that enables school leaders to effectively integrate processes into their own school structure Discussion of potential barriers to success and how to overcome these challenges Practical examples that help ground the formative assessment leadership concepts A range of worksheets and templates to help implement formative assessment leadership in your schools

Author : Rosie Phillips Bingham,Daniel Bureau,Amber Garrison Duncan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000977523

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Leading Assessment for Student Success by Rosie Phillips Bingham,Daniel Bureau,Amber Garrison Duncan Pdf

While both committed to providing effective programs and services that help students succeed in college and beyond, and aware of the increasing demands from internal and external stakeholders that every dollar spent benefits students and contributes to the mission of higher education, student affairs professionals have little guidance about how to create and sustain the culture of assessment to achieve these goals. This book provides the practical directions for embedding assessment in the fabric of practice.The authors in this volume – all experienced senior level leaders who have established programs that exemplify a culture of evidence-based practice – identify and explicate ten tenets of practice for leading and implementing a culture of change committed to student learning and sound assessment methods. Grounded in assessment literature, the tenets are:1. Understand the Why of Assessment2. Commit to Student Learning as a Primary Focus3. Lay the Foundation for a Sustainable Assessment Culture4. Develop Strategies to Engage Staff in a Commitment to Assessment5. Provide Recognition and Accountability Structures6. Reaffirm the Importance of Assessment to Anchor Cultural Change 7. Develop Sound Assessment Plans8. Connect Assessment Plans to Divisional and Institutional Strategic Plans9. Determine the Appropriate Methods for Assessing Programs and Services10. Market Data to Leverage Buy-in, and Promote Utility to the Campus Community The basic premise of this book is that the Senior Student Affairs Officer must be the primary leader and spokesperson for this effort, both in setting the tone and keeping all members of the team accountable for implementation and the commitment of their units. The book opens with an overview of history and purpose and language of assessment, relates it to the educational mission of student affairs, and outlines the four elements necessary to start a culture of assessment: commitment, connection, consistency, and communication. In addressing the role of the Senior Student Affairs Officer, subsequent chapters address the process of gaining “buy-in” and the importance understanding the unique culture of the institution; provide guidance on creating an environment of trust, accountability, and transparency; and describe how to lay the foundations to sustainability through consistency and strong interpersonal and collaborative relationships among the staff.The book concludes by summarizing the essential assessment practices and tools that senior leaders need to be aware of – providing examples of assessment cycle templates that can be applied across departments – and outlining how to establish a strategic plan aligned with institutional mission that is linear, predictable and consistent, and aligned with institutional mission; as well as communicating results both externally and internally for the purposes of improvement.

Author : Lee Dunn,Chris Morgan,Meg O'Reilly,Sharon Parry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134310142

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The Student Assessment Handbook by Lee Dunn,Chris Morgan,Meg O'Reilly,Sharon Parry Pdf

A guide to current practice in assessment, particularly for those professionals coming to terms with new pressures on their traditional teaching practices. Increased use of IT, flexible assessment methods and quality assurance all affect assessment, and the need to diversify and adapt traditional assessment practices to suit new modes of learning is clearer than ever. The Student Assessment Handbook looks at the effectiveness of traditional methods in the present day and provides guidelines on how these methods may be developed to suit today's teaching environments. It is a practical resource with case studies, reflection boxes and diagnostic tools to help the reader apply the principles to everyday teaching. The book provides advice on a wide range of topics including: * assessing to promote particular kinds of learning outcomes * using meaningful assessment techniques to assess large groups * the implications of flexible learning on timing and pacing of assessment * the pros and cons of online assessment * tackling Web plagiarism and the authentication of student work * mentoring assessment standards * assessing generic skills and quality assurance.