Essential Assessment

ebook 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

By Cassandra Erkens

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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research has revealed which assessment practices have the most positive impact on student achievement and instruction, out-of-date, unproductive practices, which students find disengaging and disheartening, still persist.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

  • Interpret the research-based tenets of assessment that are necessary to maximize all students' learning.
  • 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.
  • Discover why it is vital that assessment practices build students' and teachers' hope, efficacy, and achievement.
  • Consider scenarios that illustrate traditional, outmoded assessment practices and revised scenarios that feature practices that better reflect modern assessment needs.
  • Reflect on questions related to the content of each chapter and study next steps that teaching teams can take.
  • 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