Connecting Standards and Assessments Through Literacy, with a Foreword by Rick Stiggins
Published on 2. December 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-205-35133-6 (ISBN)
Description
Taking a common sense approach to the complex set of assessment challenges teachers face today, respected author Mark Conley maps a clear route to balance in the use of large-scale assessment to serve its intended purposes and the use of classroom assessment to meet the information needs of its intended users.
Sure to get students engaged and thinking critically about assessment in standards-based schools, Conley challenges students to address a critical assessment issue: assessment, evaluation and grading practices born and bred to produce dependable rankings-that is, to help only a few students succeed-must now be transformed into practices that permit all students to succeed. Some of the topics featured in the text (e.g. No Child Left Behind, national and state standards and instruction in relation to assessment) have been carefully selected for their currency, importance and students' needs.
Sure to get students engaged and thinking critically about assessment in standards-based schools, Conley challenges students to address a critical assessment issue: assessment, evaluation and grading practices born and bred to produce dependable rankings-that is, to help only a few students succeed-must now be transformed into practices that permit all students to succeed. Some of the topics featured in the text (e.g. No Child Left Behind, national and state standards and instruction in relation to assessment) have been carefully selected for their currency, importance and students' needs.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-35133-6 (9780205351336)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
I. HIGH STANDARDS AND HIGH-STAKES ASSESSMENT: THE LITERACY CONNECTION.
1. Higher Educational Standards.
2. High-Stakes Assessment.
II. CONNECTING STANDARDS, ASSESSMENT WITH DAILY PRACTICE.
3. Clarifying and Communicating About Standards.
4. Clarifying and Communicating About Testing.
5. Making Standards Work for You.
6. When Teaching to the Test is Just Good Curriculum.
7. Building Lessons Around Test-Taking Skills that Matter.
8. Integrating Standards and Assessment through Daily Practice.
9. Promoting Reading Fluency.
III. CONNECTING CLASSROOM PRACTICE TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
10. Making Sense of Large-scale Assessment Information.
11. Selecting, Designing and Using Classroom Assessments.
12. Communicating Assessment Information.
1. Higher Educational Standards.
2. High-Stakes Assessment.
II. CONNECTING STANDARDS, ASSESSMENT WITH DAILY PRACTICE.
3. Clarifying and Communicating About Standards.
4. Clarifying and Communicating About Testing.
5. Making Standards Work for You.
6. When Teaching to the Test is Just Good Curriculum.
7. Building Lessons Around Test-Taking Skills that Matter.
8. Integrating Standards and Assessment through Daily Practice.
9. Promoting Reading Fluency.
III. CONNECTING CLASSROOM PRACTICE TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
10. Making Sense of Large-scale Assessment Information.
11. Selecting, Designing and Using Classroom Assessments.
12. Communicating Assessment Information.