This curriculum-based approach to assessment examines teacher-made tests and curriculum as they relate to a childs success or failure, rather than looking at formal, standardized tests. Using a step-by-step approach, the authors show teachers how to work with the curriculum and adapt it to meet the childs needs, how to assess in an ongoing way, and how to recognize when curriculum change is warranted. Designed to show readers how to think like evaluators -- rather than just telling them what to do during an evaluation -- the book encourages active participation on the part of the reader. Emphasizing decision making over measurement, and uniting the functions of evaluation and instruction, the authors provide a text that takes an issues approach, rather than laying out a strict how-to blueprint. Unlike traditional approaches that focus on the incapacities of students, this text focuses on what teachers and evaluators do, not on who they do it to. The authors clear, thoughtful, and sometimes humorous writing style is coupled with a variety of in-text learning aids (quotes, key terms, study questions, illustrations, and charts and tables) to make the text easy to understand as well as a valuable reference for future use.

Product Description: Demonstrate how teachers can use a "conceptual lens" to design instructional units and differentiated lessons that deepen students' thinking skills and inspire a genuine love of learning.

Product Description: Although curriculum-based assessment (CBA) has been on the horizon for a number of years, there has been a need for a practical, classroom-based approach for its implementation. This second edition is a major revision and update that offers practical and specific methods for developing and using CBAs in an educational setting...read more

Help students analyze and synthesize information for a deeper understanding of big ideas! This third edition of the classic bestseller on curriculum design provides practical structures, planning tools, and specific classroom examples of effective teaching strategies. The author focuses on the need for curriculum that takes students to a level of understanding where knowledge transfers readily to new situations and thinking becomes integrated. Updated throughout, the book’s wide-ranging topics include:  Aligning local curriculum with state and national content standards  Using brain-based teaching methods  Developing higher-order thinking skills  Assessing and reporting student progress  Creating a lifelong love of learning in students

Offers fifteen activities in language arts and literacy, visual arts, mathematics, science, and performing art, along with guidelines for implementing, interpreting, and 'bridging' observations of children to classroom teaching practices.

Offers fifteen activities in language arts and literacy, visual arts, mathematics, science, and performing art, along with guidelines for implementing, interpreting, and 'bridging' observations of children to classroom teaching practices.

Presents a multifaceted model of understanding, which is based on the premise that people can demonstrate understanding in a variety of ways.

Incorporating advice and guidelines from educators throughout the United States, explores how to implement the framework for improving student achievement and school performance outlined in 'Understanding by Design' by Grant P. Wiggins.

Product Description: The second edition provides educators with an updated perspective of current trends in curriculum and instruction. In this thoughtful "how-to" of curriculum design, educators will find practical structures and specific classroom examples of effective curriculum strategies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This curriculum-based approach to assessment examines teacher-made tests and curriculum as they relate to a childs success or failure, rather than looking at formal, standardized tests. Using a step-by-step approach, the authors show teachers how to work with the curriculum and adapt it to meet the childs needs, how to assess in an ongoing way, and how to recognize when curriculum change is warranted. Designed to show readers how to think like evaluators -- rather than just telling them what to do during an evaluation -- the book encourages active participation on the part of the reader. Emphasizing decision making over measurement, and uniting the functions of evaluation and instruction, the authors provide a text that takes an issues approach, rather than laying out a strict how-to blueprint. Unlike traditional approaches that focus on the incapacities of students, this text focuses on what teachers and evaluators do, not on who they do it to. The authors clear, thoughtful, and sometimes humorous writing style is coupled with a variety of in-text learning aids (quotes, key terms, study questions, illustrations, and charts and tables) to make the text easy to understand as well as a valuable reference for future use. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Although curriculum-based assessment (CBA) has been on the horizon for a number of years, there has been a need for a practical, classroom-based approach for its implementation. This text offers practical and specific methods for developing and using CBAs in an educational setting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Performance Assessment and Standards-Based Curricula: The Achievement Cycle (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Developed specifically to overcome problems with traditional standardized instruments--and widely used in both general and special education settings throughout the US--curriculum-based measurement (CBM) comprises brief assessment probes of reading, spelling, written expression, and mathematics that serve both to quantify student performance and to bolster academic achievement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Developed specifically to overcome problems with traditional standardized instruments, curriculum-based measurement (CBM) has steadily increased in educational use. These brief assessment probes of reading, spelling, written expression, and mathematics serve to quantify student performance as well as to enhance academic achievement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)