Simplifying Common Assessment: A Guide for Professional Learning Communities at Work (How Teachers Can Develop Effective and Efficient Assessments)

ISBN: 194387445X

Author: Kim Bailey

Condition: New

Built on the process featured in Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for PLCs at Work, this book demonstrates how educators can develop effective and efficient assessments. The authors simplify assessment development to give teacher teams the confidence to write and use team-designed common formative assessments that help ensure all students master essential skills and concepts.Benefits: Gain strategies for how to identify and unwrap power standards to use as the basis for learning targets and common formative assessments. Use protocols and reproducibles to facilitate the formative assessment process. Get tools to create pacing guides and to design units for conducting and responding to assessments. Explore ideas on how to encourage students to become actively involved in the assessment process.Contents:Introduction: Framing the Power of Assessment in Professional Learning CommunitiesChapter 1: Clarifying Assessment Types and UsesChapter 2: Starting With the End in MindChapter 3: Considering Rigor and ComplexityChapter 4: Intentionally Planning Instruction and AssessmentChapter 5: Creating Questions, Tasks, and Tools That WorkChapter 6: Using Data to Support Student LearningChapter 7: Focusing on Feedback and Grappling With GradingChapter 8: Using Common Assessments With Singleton TeachersAppendix: Using a Road Map to Implement Common Assessments