Don't settle for assessing recall and comprehension only when you can use this guide to create assessments for higher-order thinking skills. Assessment expert Susan M. Brookhart brings you up to speed on how to develop and use test questions and other assessments that reveal how…
This highly engaging, eminently practical book provides essential resources for implementing social and emotional learning (sel) in any k-12 setting. Numerous vivid examples illustrate the nuts and bolts of this increasingly influential approach to supporting students' mental he…
This text is a clear and current description of the instructional strategies that can be immediately applied across age groups and disability labels. An evidence-based instructional methodology is provided, which has proved to be effective in teaching skills to students and adul…
The authors contention is that if the details of instruction are in place well designed sets of examples and adequate practice student learning can be accelerated far beyond what is currently being achieved in schools. Their ideas, as presented in this book, are in tune with Joh…
Get an in-depth understanding of how to create fun, engaging, and challenging performance assessments that require students to elaborate on content and demonstrate mastery of skills. This update of an ascd (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) classic includes…
Assessment and teaching of 21st century skills: methods and approach
by WIlson, Mark, Woods, Kerry, Griffin, Patrick, Darling-Hammond, Linda, Care, Esther, Griffin, Patrick, (ed), Care, Esther, (ed), Adams, Raymond, Adamson, Frank, Ahonen, Arto K., Awwal, Nafisa, Buder, Juergen, Bui, Myvan, Bujanda, Maria Eugenia, Campos, Elsie, Cheah, Horn Mun, Comfort, Kathleen, Hardin, Susan-Marie, Hesse, Friedrich, Kankaanranta, Marja, Lim, Pik Yen, Mountain, Roz, Ng, Hui Leng, Poon, Chew Leng, Sassenberg, Kai, Scalise, Kathleen, Scalise, Sam, Schonau, Diederik, Scoular, Claire, Tan, Sean, Vista, Alvin, Zoanetti, Nathan
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This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The major elements of this new volume are the ide…
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human moti…
Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of state-level testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the par…
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. The "Handbook on Measurement, Ass…