Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging. Evaluate whether your current assessments meet the design criteria, and discover how to use this process collaboratively with your team. Benefits: 
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<li>Create engaging assessments that accurately report students' progress. </li> <li>Design assessments that help students learn from their mistakes and motivate them to improve. </li> <li>Work collaboratively to analyze standards and create common assessments.</li> <li>Evaluate the cognitive level of assessment items and tasks.</li> <li>Gain access to reproducibles and other recommended resources to deepen your understanding of assessment. </li>
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Contents: Foreword by Douglas Reeves Introduction Chapter 1: Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement Chapter 2: Analyzing the Standards and Sketching Out Learning Goals Chapter 3: Crafting an Assessment Plan Chapter 4: Creating the Assessment and Gathering the Materials Chapter 5: Determining Student Investment and the Reporting Method Chapter 6: Collaborating to Create Assessments Epilogue: Building Hope Appendix: Reproducibles

Design in Five: Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice

Education & Teaching

Nicole Dimich Vagle

Foreword by Douglas Reeves

Schools & Teaching

Solution Tree

While much research has revealed which assessment practices have the most positive impact on student achievement and instruction, out-of-date, unproductive practices, which students find disengaging and disheartening, still persist. Discover how to use the power of assessment to instill hope, efficacy, and achievement in your students. With this research-based resource, you'll explore six essential tenets of assessment--assessment purpose, communication of assessment results, accurate interpretation, assessment architecture, instructional agility, and student investment--that will help deepen your understanding of assessment to not only meet standards but also enhance students' academic success and self-fulfillment. Benefits: 
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<li>Interpret the research-based tenets of assessment that are necessary to maximize all students' learning.</li> <li>Gain advice and strategies for immediately acting on the six essential assessment tenets, including how to communicate assessment results to give feedback that produces constructive responses.</li> <li>Discover why it is vital that assessment practices build students' and teachers' hope, efficacy, and achievement.</li> <li>Consider scenarios that illustrate traditional, outmoded assessment practices and revised scenarios that feature practices that better reflect modern assessment needs.</li> <li>Reflect on questions related to the content of each chapter and study next steps that teaching teams can take.</li> </ul>
Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement Chapter 2: Assessment Purpose Chapter 3: Communication of Assessment Results Chapter 4: Accurate Interpretation Chapter 5: Assessment Architecture Chapter 6: Instructional Agility Chapter 7: Student Investment References Index

Essential Assessment: Six Tenets for Bringing Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement to the Classroom (Deepen Teachers Understanding of Assessment to Meet Standards and Generate a Culture of Learning)

Cassandra Erkens

Tom Schimmer

Solution Tree Press

The true power of assessment comes when emerging results determine what comes next in student learning. This practical book empowers educators and their teams, schools, or districts to move seamlessly between instruction, formative assessment, and feedback, improving school culture more effectively than traditional methods. Instructional agility enhances ownership of learning, proficiency, and motivation for students, and promotes a positive school culture. Each chapter concludes with reflection questions that assist readers in determining next steps for supporting the whole child and the whole learning process. Learn how to promote an agile culture of learning in school to increase student ownership of learning: 
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<li>Discover how instructional agility fits within the six tenets of the essential assessment framework.</li> <li>Learn how to foster and maintain a culture of learning in schools.</li> <li>Gain strategies and tools to enhance instructional agility and assessment practices.</li> <li>Examine examples of instructional agility in action.</li> <li>Consider questions that help individual teachers and learning teams contemplate what they learned and their next steps for implementing for instructional agility strategies.</li>
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Contents: Chapter 1: Establishing a Culture of Learning Chapter 2: Engineering Engaging Conversations Chapter 3: Questioning Chapter 4: Observing Chapter 5: Mobilizing Chapter 6: Practicing Chapter 7: Fostering a Culture of Instructional Agility References and Resources

Instructional Agility: Responding to Assessment with Real-Time Decisions (Learn to Quickly Improve School Culture and Student Ownership of Learning)

Rapid innovation is transforming the way people think, work, and connect. For students to succeed today, they must acquire the knowledge and 21st century skills required for college and career readiness. Practical and research-based, this resource will help you design meaningful, relevant skill assessment and instruction that promotes student mastery of critical competencies, including collaboration, problem-solving and critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, communication skills, digital citizenship, self-regulation, and more. Use the most effective practices for teaching soft skills to increase college and career readiness: 
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<li>Explore the seven critical competencies necessary for success in the 21st century.</li> <li>Become familiar with good habits of mind, and pass those habits on to students to support their soft skill development.</li> <li>Learn how to teach critical thinking and other 21st century skills by facilitating learning that will develop the critical competencies in students.</li> <li>Develop powerful and effective soft skill assessment methods, such as student self-assessments, that will test student levels of competency in the seven critical areas.</li> <li>Access free reproducibles to supplement your understanding of the text and facilitate the book's content in the classroom.</li>
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Contents: About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Cultivating Habits of the Mind Chapter 2: Self-Regulation Chapter 3: Critical Thinking Chapter 4: Collaboration Chapter 5: Creative Thinking Chapter 6: Communication Chapter 7: Digital Citizenship Chapter 8: Social Competence References and Resources Index

Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms: Assessing Seven Critical Competencies (Teaching Strategies for Soft Skills and 21st-Century-Skills Assessment Methods)

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Design in Five: Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice

Essential Assessment: Six Tenets for Bringing Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement to the Classroom (Deepen Teachers Understanding of Assessment to Meet Standards and Generate a Culture of Learning)

Instructional Agility: Responding to Assessment with Real-Time Decisions (Learn to Quickly Improve School Culture and Student Ownership of Learning)

Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms: Assessing Seven Critical Competencies (Teaching Strategies for Soft Skills and 21st-Century-Skills Assessment Methods)