Essential Assessment: 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, Tom Shimmer

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research has revealed which assessment practices have the most positive impact on student achievement and instruction, out-of-date, unproductive practices, which students find disengaging and disheartening, still persist.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

179 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 19, 2016

Reviews

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Students are not vessels to fill but rather partners to inspire. It is upon us to continually build relevance and relationship so that both students and educators maintain a true focus on learning.

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book to facilitate discussion about how assessment can mirror the changes in education around the world. How does your assessment foster hope and efficacy in your students?

[Kimberley]

This one really shouldn't be counted as a 2019 book, as 75% or more was read as Book Club in the fall of 2018, and it was only finished-up for the January meeting.

Assessment. School. Professional development.
As with most, some you can take with you, some is wishful-thinking, and some is laughable.