Assessment As Learning : Using Classroom

This book will provide teachers and school administrators with: an understanding of the reasons behind their confusion and discomfort by detailing the way that the changing role of schooling and our increasing knowledge about the nature of learning have made classroom assessment much more complex, with a range of different purposes that require differentiated assessment practices.

Series Editors' Introduction

vii

Preface

ix

About the Author

xv

1. The Evolution of Assessment

1

(4)

"The Case of Standards-Based Assessment"

2

(1)

Defining the Future

3

(1)

Ideas for Follow-Up

4

(1)

2. Rethinking Assessment

5

(16)

A Brief History of Assessment

5

(4)

Looking for Change in All the Wrong Places

9

(1)

Rethinking Assessment for Real Change

10

(2)

Purpose is Everything

12

(3)

Taking Up the Challenge

15

(1)

Classroom Assessment and Large-Scale Reform

16

(4)

Ideas for Follow-Up

20

(1)

3. Assessment of Learning, for Learning, and as Learning

21

(8)

Assessment of Learning

22

(1)

Assessment for Learning

23

(1)

Assessment as Learning

24

(1)

Getting the Balance Right

25

(3)

Ideas for Follow-Up

28

(1)

4. A Focus on Learning

29

(13)

Learning for Understanding

32

(3)

Learning Is Hard Work

35

(4)

Learning Happens in Context

39

(2)

Ideas for Follow-Up

41

(1)

5. Assessment and Learning

42

(5)

How Does Assessment Contribute to Learning?

42

(3)

This is Not Just About Assessment

45

(1)

Ideas for Follow-Up

46

(1)

6. Using Assessment to Identify What Students Believe to Be True

47

(20)

"The Case of the Pool Table"

47

(2)

Start With What Students Believe to Be True

49

(1)

"The Case of the Bog"

50

(16)

Ideas for Follow-Up

66

(1)

7. Using Assessment to Motivate Learning

67

(11)

Assessment That Motivates

68

(2)

"The Case of Othello"

70

(2)

Assessment to Reverse Socialization

72

(5)

Ideas for Follow-Up

77

(1)

8. Using Assessment to Make Connections

78

(11)

Curricula as Visible Targets for Learning

79

(4)

Plan Learning, Plan Assessment, and Expect the Unexpected

83

(1)

"The Case of the Literacy Hour"

84

(2)

Differentiation

86

(2)

Ideas for Follow-Up

88

(1)

9. Using Assessment to Extend Learning

89

(11)

Feedback for Learning

89

(5)

Rubrics and Exemplars as Tools

94

(1)

"The Case of the Brass Band"

95

(2)

Ideas, Connections, and Extensions (ICE)

97

(2)

Ideas for Follow-Up

99

(1)

10. Using Assessment for Reflection and Self-Monitoring

100

(10)

"The Case of Jojo"

100

(1)

Students as Their Own Best Assessors

101

(1)

Developing Self-Evaluation Habits of Mind

102

(4)

"The Case of Choices"

106

(3)

Ideas for Follow-Up

109

(1)

11. Using Assessment for Optimum Learning

110

(13)

Think About What You Believe to Be True

112

(2)

Learn About Learning

114

(1)

Know Your Subject

114

(1)

Be an Expert Teacher

115

(1)

Work Together

116

(2)

Be Gentle With Yourself, But Don't Give Up

118

(1)

Self-Monitoring and Self-Development for You, Too

119

(1)

Get the Support You Need

119

(1)

Put It All Together

120

(3)

References

123

(6)

Index

129

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Assessment As Learning : Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning

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