Overview
In The Teacher as Assessment Leader, Second Edition, editor Thomas R. Guskey and expert contributors offer research-backed strategies for re-envisioning assessment to enhance student learning and teacher instruction. The authors provide actionable steps, practical examples, and strategies for utilizing formative assessments. These strategies promote a growth mindset, proficiency, self-regulation, and student ownership, ultimately fostering improved instructional effectiveness and student achievement.
K–12 teachers can use this book to:
- Adopt new perspectives on assessment’s role in guiding student learning
- Employ practical strategies to improve instruction and enhance student achievement
- Promote regular assessment analysis to enhance instructional strategies
- Encourage student self-efficacy in identifying and pursuing learning goals
- Lead and collaborate with colleagues in developing more effective, practical assessments and alternative instructional strategies
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Leading the Assessment Revolution From Within
Chapter 2: Harvesting Assessment Evidence to Yield Effective Responses
Chapter 3: Assessing Beyond the Labels
Chapter 4: Sharing Leadership to Align Assessment Practices Across the School
Chapter 5: Using Data as a Flashlight, Not a Hammer, to Illuminate Evidence That Matters
Chapter 6: Developing Self-Regulatory Learners Through Assessment
Chapter 7: Designing Assessments to Accelerate Learning
Chapter 8: Approaching Learning and Assessment as a Subtle Curator
Chapter 9: Leading the Way to Student Success
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