Design in Five: Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice

by Nicole Dimich Vagle

Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging. Evaluate whether your current assessments meet the design criteria, and discover how to use this process collaboratively with your team.
Foreword by Douglas Reeves
Introduction
Chapter 1: Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement
Chapter 2: Analyzing the Standards and Sketching Out Learning Goals
Chapter 3: Crafting an Assessment Plan
Chapter 4: Creating the Assessment and Gathering the Materials
Chapter 5: Determining Student Investment and the Reporting Method
Chapter 6: Collaborating to Create Assessments
Building Hope
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176 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published August 29, 2014

Reviews

[Debra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vagle's book is a good resource and I would recommend it for a book study for collaborative teams with a lot of guidance and collaboration.

If teams have started the process of identifying and breaking down essential standards, the first part of the book may seem redundant.

I appreciated her discussions on engagement throughout. Writing engaging assessments is often not ever even considered.

Chapters 5 and 6 were the most useful for me as she outlines and discusses scoring (that makes learning relevant--not just a grade), getting students to invest in the learning with strategies, providing relevant and productive feedback, and creating collaborative assessments as a team.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent overview of unit design, emphasizing really knowing the standards and level of complexity before designing both formative and summative assessments. I especially liked the strategies for having students analyze their own mistakes and learning needs before retaking assessments.

[Thager · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource

[Neil Hepworth · Rating 2 out of 5]

The ideas are excellent--I just find the presentation of the ideas in the book to be overly cumbersome. This is a good book to use as a reference book, but I was looking for a bit more...