The time has come for poor test-takers to realize that the ability to perform well on examinations is not always an accurate assessment of understanding and academic capability. Standardized tests measure one's ability to perform under stress, not one's ability to learn and retain information. As researchers gain new knowledge about how the brain works and how people acquire understanding, educators are expanding their repertoire of assessment tools. And as communities work toward developing mindful schools, they also must reorient their concepts about curriculum, policies, organization of time, and assessment strategies. Performance tasks, portfolio development, and scoring rubrics are just a few of the assessment tools that are now being implemented to measure learning. In this volume, Kay Burke presents a wide range of alternative forms of assessment in a meaningful and practical format. Learning logs, reflective journals, graphic organizers, interviews, and peer editing are only some of the authentic assessments offered in this book which help learners develop lifelong learning and problem-solving skills. Educators, administrators, school psychologists, curriculum planners, and parents. A Skylight Professional Book."

The Mindful School : How to Assess Authentic Learning

Education & Teaching

Kay Burke

Schools & Teaching

Skylight Professional Development

For courses in assessment, general methods, and select courses in educational psychology. This text presents a wide range of alternative forms of assessment. They are presented in a meaningful and practical format, which makes their use easily applicable to those in schools and classrooms searching for more authentic forms of assessment. They will prove valuable to teaching teams wishing to collect data to evaluate their curriculum and instructional decision making. They will assist in communicating more thoughtfully to parents. Most importantly, they will signal to students that self-assessment is the ultimate goal of the mindful school. Its non-threatening approach offers explanations of learning standards, performance tasks, portfolio development and scoring rubrics. This book was written to help educators expand their repertoire of strategies to provide a more balanced assessment of student learning and to help students increase achievement and meet both knowledge and performance standards.

The Mindful School: How to Assess Authentic Learning

Skylight Professional Developm

In this second edition of What to Do With the Kid Who. . .: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline, and Responsibility in the Classroom, Kay Burke, a nationally recognized educator and teacher trainer, offers both new and veteran teachers updated strategies to meet the critical challenges of today's diverse classrooms and the unique needs of their students. This excellent resource features the latest research on classroom management, violence prevention, emotional intelligence, inclusion, and cooperative learning, and provides more than 200 specific teaching strategies to help students regulate their own behavior, resolve their own conflicts, and celebrate their own learning.

What to Do With the Kid Who - Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline, & Responsibility in the Classroom (2nd, 00) by Burke, Kathleen (Kay) B [Paperback (2000)]

Skylight Training & Publishing

This edition provides performance assessments while also addressing the effectiveness of teacher-made tools such as performance tasks, criteria checklists, multiple intelligences experiences, rubrics, logs, journals, interviews, portfolios, and metacognitive processing techniques.

How to Assess Authentic Learning

Corwin Press

How To Assess Authentic Learning

Balanced Assessment: From Formative to Summative

Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own repertoire of formative and summative assessments to monitor, grade, and make inferences about a student's ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide opportunities to reflect and plan action steps. Benefits: 
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<li>Learn how teacher teams can analyze standards to make them more manageable and plan a logical instructional sequence. </li> <li>Understand formative and summative assessments and how they complement each other. </li> <li>Create checklists and rubrics. </li> <li>Explore how to make the curriculum more engaging through authentic performance tasks. </li> <li>Gain numerous examples of performance tasks, checklists, and rubrics from different subject areas and grade levels. </li> <li>Find ways to differentiate instruction.</li> <li>Get more informal, "quick and easy" assessment strategies. </li> <li>Recognize the difference between assessment and evaluation. </li>
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Contents: Chapter 1: Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment: Begin With the End in Mind Chapter 2: The Balanced Assessment Model: When Formative Meets Summative Chapter 3: Common Assessments: A Community of Assessors Chapter 4: Performance Tasks: The Key to an Engaging Curriculum Chapter 5: Checklists: Progressions of Learning Chapter 6: Rubrics: All Roads Lead to the Standards Chapter 7: Formative Assessment Tools: Real Time and Real Fast Chapter 8: Summative Assessment and Evaluation: The Last Judgment

Solution Tree

Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework

RTI and formative assessment have the potential to positively impact student achievement. Understand the basics of RTI and its connection to formative assessment, and base instructional decisions on the results of effective formative assessment practices. Learn how to adjust instruction to increase levels of student understanding and achievement with the information, tools, and techniques presented in this practical guide. Benefits: 
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<li>Acquire numerous examples of formative assessment tools, most of which can be used for any subject. </li> <li>Gain tools that help students self-assess their social skills and behavior patterns so they become more aware of how their actions affect their academic achievement. </li> <li>Find a four-step, systematic approach to data collection and analysis plus a variety of data collection and display methods. </li>
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Contents: Part 1: Understanding RTI and Formative Assessment Chapter 1: Overview of RTI Chapter 2: Overview of Formative Assessment Chapter 3: Using Assessment Data to Inform Decision Making Chapter 4: Putting It All Together Part 2: Formative Assessment Tools Chapter 5: Feedback and Reflection Chapter 6: Checklists for Learning Chapter 7: Rubrics as an Assessment Tool Chapter 8: Performance Assessments for the 21st Century

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