Assessment
Books
- A Practical Guide to Alternative Assessment
- Administrator’s Guide To Student Achievement & Higher Test Scores
- Alternative Assessment Techniques for Reading & Writing
- Assessing Impact: Evaluating Staff Development
- Assessing Student Outcomes
- Assessment FOR Learning - An Action Guide for School Leaders - Vision + Competence + Action = Student Success
- Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment - Elementary
- Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment - Elementary - Teacher Guide
- Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment - Middle
- Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment - Middle - Teacher Guide
- Handbook for Student Performance Assessment - in an Era of Restructuring
- Mapping the Big Picture - Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12
- Measuring Instructional Results or Got a Match? - How to find out if your instructional objectives have been achieved
- Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Assessment: Solving the Assessment Conundrum
- Taking Running Records
- The Measure Of Our Success: A Letter To My Children And Yours
- What Teachers Need to Know About Assessment
Videos
- Assessment for Learning: Classroom Assessment-Elementary
- Assessment for Learning: Classroom Assessment-Secondary
- Assessment for Quality Learning
- Assessments and Scoring Guides Based on Standards - EL
- Assessments and Scoring Guides Based on Standards - Secondary
- Designing Performance Assessment - EL
- Designing Performance Assessment - Secondary
- Developmental Reading Assessment K - 3
- Grading and Reporting Student Progress to Enhance Learning
- Mathematics Assessment: Alternative Approaches
- Missouri Assessment Program - Scoring Process
- Performance Assessment in the Classroom
- Program In A Box: Performance Assessment
- Questioning to Stimulate Learning and Thinking - Intermediate
- Questioning to Stimulate Learning and Thinking - High
- Teaching and Scoring Constructed Response and performance Events
Books
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Title |
Reading and Writing Assessment Portfolio Part 1 Grades K-3 | |
| Author | Diane Deford | |
| Publisher | Dominie Press | |
| Copyright | 2001 | |
| Description | This portfolio includes 1 show me book, 11 benchmark books, 20 bridging books, 1 reading assessment teacher's guide, 1 phonics, writing, and spelling assessment teacher's guide and 1 student test samples booklet | |
| Reference Number | RE132 ????? |
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Title |
Administrator’s Guide To Student Achievement & Higher Test Scores | |
| Author | Marcia Kalb Knoll, Ed.D. | |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall | |
| Copyright | 2002 | |
| Description | This book is for elementary and secondary principals and other key supervisory personnel. The book describes a comprehensive action plan for improving instruction, student achievement, and student test scores in virtually any school, including scores of timesaving forms, charts, and worksheets that can be used “as is” or easily adapted to fit your own situation. | |
| Reference Number |
AS100 |
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Title |
Alternative Assessment Techniques for Reading & Writing | |
| Author | Wilma H. Miller | |
| Publisher | The Center for Applied Research in Education | |
| Copyright | 1995 | |
| Description | This practical resource helps elementary classroom, remedial reading, and LD teachers make the best possible informal assessment of a child’s specific reading, writing, and spelling strengths and weaknesses and attitudes toward reading. | |
| Reference Number | AS101 |
|
Title |
A Practical Guide to Alternative Assessment | |
| Author | Joan L. Herman, Pamela R. Aschbacher & Lynn Winters | |
| Publisher |
ASCD |
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| Copyright | 1992 | |
| Description | This book offers cogent guidance on the creation and use of alternative measures of student achievement. The authors present a process model that links assessment with curriculum and instruction based on contemporary theories of learning and cognition. | |
| Reference Number | AS102 |
|
Title |
Assessing Impact: Evaluating Staff Development | |
| Author | Joellen Killion | |
| Publisher | National Staff Development Council | |
| Copyright |
2002 |
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| Description | This book focuses on tools used to evaluate and develop staff development within the school structure. | |
| Reference Number | AS103 |
|
Title |
Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Assessment: Solving the Assessment Conundrum | |
| Author | David Lazear | |
| Publisher | Zephyr Press | |
| Copyright |
1994 |
|
| Description | This book is about confronting our knowledge and applying it to restructuring the assessment process in our schools. | |
| Reference Number | AS105 |
|
Title |
The Measure Of Our Success: A Letter To My Children And Yours |
|
| Author | Marian Wright Edelman | |
| Publisher | Harper Perennial | |
| Copyright |
1993 |
|
| Description | The Measure of Our Success is a book to turn lives around: a compassionate message for parents trying to raise moral children, a tough and searching book that ought to be required reading for every young American. | |
| Reference Number | AS106 |
|
Title |
Assessing Student Outcomes | |
| Author | Marzano/Pickering/McTighe | |
| Publisher | ASCD | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | Performance assessment and learner-centered education come together in this latest extension of ASCD's Dimensions of Learning program. Dimensions of Learning is an instructional framework based on the best of what research and theory say about learning. | |
| Reference Number | AS107 |
|
Title |
Mapping the Big Picture - Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12 | |
| Author | Heidi Hayes Jacobs | |
| Publisher | ASCD | |
| Copyright | 1997 | |
| Description | Using a standard computer word-processing program, teachers can
collect real-time information about what is actually taught to create
"curriculum maps" to provide a clear picture of what is happening in
their classes. When curriculum maps are developed for every grade
level, educators see not only the details of each map, but also the "big
picture" for that school or district. In this book, the author describes a seven-step process for creating and working with curriculum maps, from data collection to ongoing curriculum review. She discusses the importance of asking "essential questions" and of designing assessments that reflect what teachers know about the students in their care. The book concludes with more than 20 sample curriculum maps from real schools, all of which were developed using the process described in this book. |
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| Reference Number | AS109 (Cross Ref: CU109) |
|
Title |
Assessment For Learning - An Action Guide for School Leaders - Vision + Competence + Action = Student Success | |
| Author | Stephen Chappuis, Richard J. Stiggins, Judith Arter, and Jan Chappuis | |
| Publisher | Assessment Training Institute | |
| Copyright | 2005 | |
| Description | The award-winning book that helps teachers apply the principles of
assessment FOR learning in the classroom. This book is designed to
use in collaborative learning teams. It is grounded in the
research shown to increase student motivation and learning through
improved classroom assessment. This combination text and workbook: ◊ is user-friendly with practical examples of what assessment for learning looks like in everyday instruction ◊ helps educators increase knowledge and skill in student-involved classroom assessment ◊ comes with activities that lead to hands-on prractice in the classroom ◊ contains additional resources on a CD-ROM and video segments on the accompanying DVD. |
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| Reference Number | AS110 |
|
Title |
Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment - Elementary | |
| Author | Christine Lund Orciuch | |
| Publisher | Options Publishing, Inc. | |
| Copyright | 2002 | |
| Description | The skills and strategies taught here are consistent with the
methods used in teaching social studies competencies in preparation for
many statewide assessment tests. These skills and strategies also
help student develop lifelong learning skills. This assessment
provides instruction for and extensive practice with important social
studies, reading, writing and thinking skills. There are three types of questions: Δ Part One: Multiple Choice Δ Part Two: Constructed Response Items Δ Part Three: Document-Based Questions and Essay. |
|
| Reference Number | AS111 (goes w/AS111TG) Teacher Guide |
|
Title |
Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment - Elementary | |
| Author | Christine Lund Orciuch | |
| Publisher | Options Publishing, Inc. | |
| Copyright | 2002 | |
| Description | The skills and strategies taught here are consistent with the
methods used in teaching social studies competencies in preparation for
many statewide assessment tests. These skills and strategies also
help student develop lifelong learning skills. This assessment
provides instruction for and extensive practice with important social
studies, reading, writing and thinking skills. There are three types of questions: Δ Part One: Multiple Choice Δ Part Two: Constructed Response Items Δ Part Three: Document-Based Questions and Essay. |
|
| Reference Number | AS111TG Teacher Guide (goes w/AS111) |
|
Title |
Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment - Middle | |
| Author | Christine Lund Orciuch | |
| Publisher | Options Publishing, Inc. | |
| Copyright | 2002 | |
| Description | The skills and strategies taught here are consistent with the
methods used in teaching social studies competencies in preparation for
many statewide assessment tests. These skills and strategies also
help student develop lifelong learning skills. This assessment
provides instruction for and extensive practice with important social
studies, reading, writing and thinking skills. There are three types of questions: Δ Part One: Multiple Choice Δ Part Two: Constructed Response Items Δ Part Three: Document-Based Questions and Essay. |
|
| Reference Number | AS112 (goes w/AS112TG) Teacher Guide |
|
Title |
Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment - Middle - Teacher Guide | |
| Author | Christine Lund Orciuch | |
| Publisher | Options Publishing, Inc. | |
| Copyright | 2002 | |
| Description | The skills and strategies taught here are consistent with the
methods used in teaching social studies competencies in preparation for
many statewide assessment tests. These skills and strategies also
help student develop lifelong learning skills. This assessment
provides instruction for and extensive practice with important social
studies, reading, writing and thinking skills. There are three types of questions: Δ Part One: Multiple Choice Δ Part Two: Constructed Response Items Δ Part Three: Document-Based Questions and Essay. |
|
| Reference Number | AS112TG Teacher Guide (goes w/AS112) |
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Title |
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| Author | Mary Shea, Ph.D | |
| Publisher | Scholastic | |
| Copyright | 2000 | |
| Description |
A teacher shares her experience on how to take running records and use
what they tell you to assess and improve every child's reading. Running records reveal skills and strategies the child uses to decode, comprehend, and interpret different kinds of levels of text read orally or silently. |
|
| Reference Number | AS113 Cross Reference: RE145 |
|
Title |
Handbook for Student Performance Assessment - in an Era of Restructuring |
|
| Author | Robert E. Blum & Judith A. Arter, Editors | |
| Publisher | ASCD | |
| Copyright | 2000 | |
| Description | This handbook has ten sections: Δ Section I: Setting the Stage Δ Section II: Placing Assessment Within the Context of School Restructuring Δ Section III: Developing Student Learning Goals for the 21st Century Δ Section IV: Aligning Assessment with Curriculum and Instruction Δ Section V: Designing Performance Assessments Tasks Δ Section VI: Establishing Performance Criteria Δ Section VII: Using Performance Assessment Information for Improvement Δ Section VIII: Implementing Performance Assessment Δ Section IX: Performance Assessment Examples Δ Section X: Resources | |
| Reference Number | AS115 |
|
Title |
Measuring Instructional Results or Got a Match? - How to find out if your instructional objectives have been achieved | |
| Author | Mager, Robert F. | |
| Publisher | The Center for Effective Performance, Inc. | |
| Copyright | 1997, 1984, 1975 | |
| Description | This book gives you an systematic and easy-to-follow process for assessing whether learners have mastered the important skills your instruction is designed to teach. It shows you how to prepare and select test items that match your objectives for learner performance. Its a hands-on guide. This revised edition includes over 80 practice exercises to sharpen your skills, a handy pull-out reference card to help you match test items to objectives, and a new index for easy reference. | |
| Reference Number | AS117 Cross Ref: SPAS102 |
|
Title |
What Teachers Need to Know About Assessment | |
| Author | Lawrence M. Rudner & William D. Schafer | |
| Publisher | nea | |
| Copyright | 2002 | |
| Description | The goal of this book is to help educators become knowledgeable
users of teacher-constructed and district/state-sponsored assessments.
It contains information about: Δ
fundamental concepts common to all assessments Δ
essential classroom assessment concepts Δ
useful concepts and issues pertaining to district, state, and national
assessment In this book are checklists, suggestions, guidelines, and very few formulas. |
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| Reference Number | AS118 Cross Ref: SPAS103 |
Videos
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Title |
Developmental Reading Assessment K - 3 | |
| Author | ||
| Publisher | Pearson | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | ||
| Reference Number | RE003 |
|
Title |
Missouri Assessment Program - Scoring Process | |
| Author | DESE | |
| Publisher | ||
| Copyright | ||
| Description | ||
| Reference Number | AS001 |
|
Title |
Program In A Box: Performance Assessment | |
| Author | Art Costa | |
| Publisher | PDK Foundation | |
| Copyright | - | |
| Description | This program is designed to assist educators in planning faculty meetings, PTA/PTO meetings, staff in-service, presentations to community organizations, and PDK Chapter programs. This video presents an interview with the resource person(s) discussing an educational issue. | |
| Reference Number | AS002 |
|
Title |
Teaching and Scoring Constructed Response and Performance Events |
|
| Author | Kansas City, Missouri School District | |
| Publisher | DESE | |
| Copyright | 2000 | |
| Description | In these two videos the facilitators: Δ present examples of assessment items that have been used on MAP tests (released items) in four content areas - Communication Arts, Math, and Social Studies - at various grade levels ; Δ show examples of student responses to those items along with scoring guides; Δ provide practice on scorng those student responses; and Δ share tips for moving student responses to higher levels. | |
| Reference Number | AS003 Cross Reference: MP001 |
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Title |
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| Author | Therese M. Kuhs | |
| Publisher | National Council of Teachers of Mathematics | |
| Copyright | 1992 | |
| Description | This is for professional educators who want to try new approaches to assessment. The video is divided into six segments, each requiring from 8 to 15 minutes of viewing time. The use of performance tasks, observations, interviews, writing in mathematics, and assessment portfolios is discussed and demonstrated. Individual segments might be used during a sequence of teacher education or staff development meetings. The viewer's guide offers ideas and specific activities that can be modified to suit different audiences. | |
| Reference Number | AS004 Cross Reference: MP002 |
|
Title |
Assessments and Scoring Guides Based on Standards - EL | |
| Author | Douglas B. Reeves | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | The third issue of volume 8 of the Video Journal of Education sheds a promising light on the dilemma of difficult assessment through making assessments authentic and using scoring guides. Clearly illustrated in these videotapes are 1) five specific steps to designing rubrics 2) classroom examples of authentic assessments based on standards 3) ideas for writing as tools for assessment 4) a process for schoolwide assessment and improvement of writing skills. | |
| Reference Number | AS803E |
|
Title |
Assessments and Scoring Guides Based on Standards - Secondary | |
| Author | Douglas B. Reeves | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | The third issue of volume 8 of the Video Journal of Education sheds a promising light on the dilemma of difficult assessment through making assessments authentic and using scoring guides. Clearly illustrated in these videotapes are 1) five specific steps to designing rubrics 2) classroom examples of authentic assessments based on standards 3) ideas for writing as tools for assessment 4) a process for schoolwide assessment and improvement of writing skills. | |
| Reference Number | AS803S |
|
Title |
Questioning to Stimulate Learning and Thinking - Featuring the QUILT Model | |
| Author | Jackie Walsh and Beth Sattes (Presented by) | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | 1999 | |
| Description | Part One - Stage One: Prepare the Questions Δ The educative question must be purposeful, clearly focused, carefully conceived and well formulated in advance of presenting it to all students. Δ Stage One Behaviors: ◊ Identify Instructional Purpose ◊ Determine Content Focus ◊ Select Cognitive Level ◊ Consider Wording and Syntax Part Two - Stages Two and Three: Present the Question and Prompt Student Responses Δ Stage Two Behaviors: ◊ Indicate Response Format ◊ Ask the Question ◊ Select Respondent Δ Stage Three Behaviors: ◊ Pause After Asking Question (Wait Time I) ◊ Assist Non-respondent ◊ Pause Following Student Response (Wait Time II) Part Three - Stages Four and Five: Process Student Responses and Critique the Questioning Episode Δ Stage Four Behaviors: ◊ Provide Appropriate Feedback ◊ Expand and Use Correct Responses ◊ Elicit Student Reactions and Questions Δ Stage Five Behaviors: ◊ Analyze the Questions ◊ Map Respondent Selection ◊ Evaluate Student Response Patterns ◊ Examine Teacher and Student Reactions |
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| Reference Number | AS804S |
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Title |
Designing Performance Assessment - EL | |
| Author | Jay McTighe | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | The sixth issue of volume 8 of the Video Journal of Education provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding arena of assessment in a performance based mode. This issue includes: characteristics of quality performance assessment and tasks, a process for designing performance assessment tasks, defined content standards and performance indicators, examples of performance assessments in various content areas, rubric design to score performance products. | |
| Reference Number | AS806E |
|
Title |
Designing Performance Assessment - Secondary | ||
| Author | Jay McTighe | ||
| Publisher | Video J | ||
| Copyright | |||
| Description | The sixth issue of volume 8 of the Video Journal of Education provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding arena of assessment in a performance based mode. This issue includes: characteristics of quality performance assessment and tasks, a process for designing performance assessment tasks, defined content standards and performance indicators, examples of performance assessments in various content areas, rubric design to score performance products. | ||
| Reference Number | AS806S |
|
Title |
Grading and Reporting Student Progress to Enhance Learning | |
| Author | Thomas R. Guskey | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | Issue 903 of the Video Journal of Education provides educators a refreshing new view of a stagnant and traditional practice. Report cards and grades are pools of water that for a variety of reasons have seldom been stirred. The video tape gives examples of educators who are vigorously challenging these sacred cows in pursuit of better communication and student learning. | |
| Reference Number | AS903 |
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Title |
Questioning to Stimulate Learning and Thinking - Intermediate | |
| Author | Walsh/Sattes | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | Volume 9, Issue 4 of the Video Journal of Education outlines a powerful program for writing across the curriculum. Highlights include the following: schoolwide writing, six traits for teachers in assessing writing, and strategies for building a writing across the curriculum program. | |
| Reference Number | AS904IM |
|
Title |
Questioning to Stimulate Learning and Thinking - High | |
| Author | Walsh/Sattes | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | Volume 9, Issue 4 of the Video Journal of Education outlines a powerful program for writing across the curriculum. Highlights include the following: schoolwide writing, six traits for teachers in assessing writing, and strategies for building a writing across the curriculum program. | |
| Reference Number | AS904H |
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Title |
Assessment for Learning: Classroom Assessment-Elementary | |
| Author | ||
| Publisher | ||
| Copyright | ||
| Description | ||
| Reference Number | AS1202E |
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Title |
Assessment for Learning: Classroom Assessment for High-Stakes Success - Secondary Edition | |
| Author | Rick Stiggins (Presented by) | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | 2002 | |
| Description | In an age of accountability, educators must provide students with
clear targets to shoot for and ways to show what they know. Only
then will students develop confidence in their own abilities as learners
and feel capable of succeeding. Program 1 - Assessments As a Critical Part of Learning Δ Learn what it means to truly leave no student behind by relying on learning targets and classroom assessment processes that set students up for success. Δ Explore the critical difference between: ◊ Assessment of learning. ◊ Assessment for learning. Δ Discover assessment belief systems that enhance learning by informing instructional decisions and motivating learners: ◊ Build confidence, not anxiety to ensure assessment for learning. ◊ Use success, not intimidation to raise levels of learning. Δ See how continuous student involvement in the assessment process keeps the learning target in full view. Δ Find out how to align classroom assessment targets to state standards that assure student success. Program 2 - Targeting the Learning Δ Understand the need for teachers to develop Assessment Literacy by: ◊ Gaining knowledge about the principles of sound assessment. ◊ Learning to gather dependable evidence. ◊ Using the results to benefit students. Δ Learn how to ask the questions that underpin assessment accuracy: ◊ The Why? of Assessment - Who will use the results and for what purpose? ◊ The What? of Assessment - What do I want my students to know and understand? ◊ The How? of Assessment - Given my learning contexts, what is the proper assessment method to use? Δ Discover how to link learning targets with various assessment methods. Δ Observe the power of student-led parent/teacher conferences as a breakthrough method to communicate student achievement. |
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| Reference Number | AS1202S |
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Title |
Assessment for Quality Learning | |
| Author | Rick Stiggins | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | The seventh issue of the Video Journal of Education explores the role of assessment in the process of measuring the outcomes in a quality school. The purpose of these video tapes is to assist you in evaluating your current assessment practices and engaging your staff in the process of developing accurate, viable assessment strategies. | |
| Reference Number | ASV1-7 |
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Title |
Performance Assessment in the Classroom | |
| Author | Jay McTighe | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | What is the role of assessment in a quality educational environment? What current paradigms about assessment are hindering school improvements? How can outcomes like student responsibility and self-directedness be accurately measured? Questions like these are challenging educators to examine the issue of how we measure learning. In volume 3, the 3rd issue of the Video Journal of Education explores these and related questions to enable educators to improve assessment techniques and practices. | |
| Reference Number | ASV3-3 |