Assessment

Assessment

Books

 

Videos

Books

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 ?????

 

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

 

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
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
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.
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 practice in the classroom
  •  contains additional resources on a CD-ROM and video segments on the accompanying DVD.
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:

  •  Part One: Multiple Choice
  •  Part Two: Constructed Response Items
  •  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:

  • Part One: Multiple Choice
  •  Part Two: Constructed Response Items
  • 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:

  • Part One: Multiple Choice
  •  Part Two: Constructed Response Items
  • 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:

  • Part One: Multiple Choice
  •  Part Two: Constructed Response Items
  • Part Three: Document-Based Questions and Essay.
Reference Number AS112TG  Teacher Guide  (goes w/AS112)

 

Title

Taking Running Records
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:

  • Section I: Setting the Stage
  • Section II: Placing Assessment Within the Context of School Restructuring
  • Section III: Developing Student Learning Goals for the 21st Century
  • Section IV: Aligning Assessment with Curriculum and Instruction
  • Section V: Designing Performance Assessments Tasks
  • Section VI: Establishing Performance Criteria
  • Section VII: Using Performance Assessment Information for Improvement
  • Section VIII: Implementing Performance Assessment
  • Section IX: Performance Assessment Examples
  • 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:

  • fundamental concepts common to all assessments
  • essential classroom assessment concepts
  • useful concepts and issues pertaining to district, state, and national assessment

In this book are checklists, suggestions, guidelines, and very few formulas.
Reference Number AS118                                          Cross Ref: SPAS103                        

 

 

 

 

Videos

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:

  • 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 ;
  • show examples of student responses to those items along with scoring guides;
  • provide practice on scoring those student responses; and
  • share tips for moving student responses to higher levels.
Reference Number AS003                     Cross Reference:  MP001

 

Title

Mathematics Assessment: Alternative Approaches
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 school wide 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 school wide 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 QuestionsThe educative question must be purposeful, clearly focused, carefully conceived and well formulated in advance of presenting it to   all students. 

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

Stage Two Behaviors:

  • Indicate Response Format
  •  Ask the Question
  •  Select Respondent

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

Stage Four Behaviors:

  •  Provide Appropriate Feedback
  •  Expand and Use Correct Responses
  •  Elicit Student Reactions and Questions

Stage Five Behaviors:

  •  Analyze the Questions
  •  Map Respondent Selection
  •  Evaluate Student Response Patterns
  •  Examine Teacher and Student Reactions
Reference Number AS804S

 

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

 

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: school wide 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: school wide writing, six traits for teachers in assessing writing, and strategies for building a writing across the curriculum program.
Reference Number AS904H

 

Title

 Assessment for Learning:  Classroom Assessment-Elementary
Author
Publisher
Copyright
Description
Reference Number AS1202E

 

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

  • 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.
  • Explore the critical difference between:
    • Assessment of learning.
    • Assessment for learning.
  • Discover assessment belief systems that enhance learning by informing instructional decisions and motivating learners:
    • Build confidence, not anxiety to ensure assessment for learning by informing.
    • Use success, not intimidation to raise levels of learning.
  • See how continuous student involvement in the assessment process keeps the learning target in full view.
  • Find out how to align classroom assessment targets to state standards that assure student success.

Program 2 – Targeting the Learning

  • 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.
  • 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?
  • Discover how to link learning targets with various assessment methods.
  • Observe the power of student-led parent/teacher conferences as a breakthrough method to communicate student achievement.
Reference Number AS1202S

 

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

 

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