From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K-8 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412917794 ISBN 13: 9781412917797

Verlag: Sage Publications, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

`... a focused approach to increased student achievement. It's a phenomenal resource.'

-Eileen Depka Author, The Data Guidebook for Teachers and Leaders

`For teachers and administrators, this is just what the doctor ordered. This process will engage teachers in assessment just as it helps them engage students in their own learning. This book should be in the hands of every teacher.'

-Ron Nash, Organizational Development Specialist Virginia Beach Public Schools, VA

`The book gives great references to the latest in research and ties this information together in a wonderful step-by-step format. Kay Burke hits a grand slam.'

-Richie Wood, Professor Trevecca Nazarene University

Use proven, practical tools to successfully translate standards to rubrics!

Internationally recognized assessment expert Kay Burke offers a practical, comprehensive six-step walk-through of how to create tasks that promote learning for all students and write rubrics linked straight to the requirements of state standards and the No Child Left Behind Act. Individual chapters drill deep into the how-to of translating standards into essential learning. Burke demonstrates how to build a performance task unit as the ideal curriculum framework for clustering standards and differentiating instruction within a single cohesive unit of study. She shows how to share checklists and rubrics with students for ongoing formative and self-assessment.

Teachers and administrators will find everything they need, including

Templates for all six steps along with an accompanying CD-ROM

Tools and tips to help teachers build their own tasks, checklists, and rubrics

Theory, examples, applications, and explanations to help apply the six-step process

Guidance for differentiating for special needs within standards linked tasks

Sample tasks, rubrics, and units

From Standards to Rubrics in 6 Steps provides the path and tools for flow-through from standards to rubrics to high student achievement.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kay Burke has served as an award-winning classroom teacher and a school administrator, university instructor, and international professional developer. She works with Kay Burke & Associates, LLC, to provide workshops for teachers and administrators in standards-based learning, performance assessment, classroom management, mentoring, and portfolio development. For the past 18 years, Burke has presented at state and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NAESP, NASSP, NMSA, and IRA as well as international conferences in Canada and Australia. She is the author of 10 professional development books and coauthor of a college textbook on assessment. Corwin Press published Burke′s best-selling From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K–8 (2006), a 2007 finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing presented by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other books published by Corwin Press include How to Assess Authentic Learning, Fourth Edition (2005) and What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom (Third Edition).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1412917794
• ISBN 13: 9781412917797
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Burke Kathleen B.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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