How to Assess Authentic Learning
3rd Edition
Published on 30. October 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
214 pages
978-1-57517-151-7 (ISBN)
Description
Assessment has emerged as one of the major components in the restructured school. "Alternative," "performance," and "authentic assessment" are on the lips of every educator, administrator, and consultant in the country.
Renowned author and educator Dr Kay Burke supplies teachers with a wide range of alternative assessments that can be implemented easily and immediately into their classrooms, and takes readers step-by-step in building a conceptual understanding of this approach demonstrating practical applications of assessment strategies.
Teachers will gain insight into:
Building observation checklists
What metacognitive reflection is and how to use it
Developing a unit plan using a multiple intelligences grid
Designing performance tasks and rubrics
When and where to use learning logs and journals
New ways to assess student interviews and conferences
A more effective approach to using grades
Constructing better teacher-made tests
Renowned author and educator Dr Kay Burke supplies teachers with a wide range of alternative assessments that can be implemented easily and immediately into their classrooms, and takes readers step-by-step in building a conceptual understanding of this approach demonstrating practical applications of assessment strategies.
Teachers will gain insight into:
Building observation checklists
What metacognitive reflection is and how to use it
Developing a unit plan using a multiple intelligences grid
Designing performance tasks and rubrics
When and where to use learning logs and journals
New ways to assess student interviews and conferences
A more effective approach to using grades
Constructing better teacher-made tests
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Weight
674 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57517-151-7 (9781575171517)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Kathleen B. Burke
How to Assess Authentic Learning
Book
09/2005
4th Edition
Corwin Press Inc
€43.51
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Person
Kay Burke has served as an award-winning classroom teacher and a school administrator, university instructor, and international professional developer. She works with Kay Burke & Associates, LLC, to provide workshops for teachers and administrators in standards-based learning, performance assessment, classroom management, mentoring, and portfolio development. For the past 18 years, Burke has presented at state and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NAESP, NASSP, NMSA, and IRA as well as international conferences in Canada and Australia. She is the author of 10 professional development books and coauthor of a college textbook on assessment. Corwin Press published Burke's best-selling From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K-8 (2006), a 2007 finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing presented by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other books published by Corwin Press include How to Assess Authentic Learning, Fourth Edition (2005) and What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom (Third Edition).