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Assessment As Learning

Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning

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By: Lorna M. Earl

Take the confusion out of assessment, and make it work to enhance the learning process—every day!

This timely resource takes the mystery and confusion out of assessment by reframing its purpose in student evaluation and learning. It will provide teachers and school and district administrators with:

Mechanisms for effective use of assessment as learning in a variety of contexts
Compelling, real-life examples and case studies drawn from the author's own experiences
Sample rubrics and lesson plans as well as "Ideas for Follow-up" at the end of each chapter
An understanding of the possible confusion surrounding assessment and its place in the learning process

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761946267
Published By: Corwin
Series: Experts In Assessment Series
Year: 2003
Page Count: 152
Publication date: May 07, 2003

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Take the confusion out of assessment, and make it work to enhance the learning process—every day!

Assessment and evaluation are central to educational reform, and they represent major shifts in thinking about learning, about schools, and about teaching. Assessment as Learning represents one of these crucial changes, but it encompasses more than just using a variety of new techniques. The concept of Assessment as Learning allows teachers to use their judgment about children's understanding to inform the teaching process and to determine what to do for individual children.

Mechanisms for effective use of assessment as learning in a variety of contexts
Compelling, real-life examples and case studies drawn from the author's own experiences
Sample rubrics and lesson plans as well as "Ideas for Follow-up" at the end of each chapter
An understanding of the possible confusion surrounding assessment and its place in the learning process
A detailed discussion of the changing role of schooling and our increasing knowledge about the complex nature of learning

Learn to embrace assessment, not just as a tool for student evaluation, but as a valuable strategy for everyday classroom learning.

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Based on real teacher's experiences, short and direct

Author(s)

Lorna M. Earl

Lorna M. Earl is a director of Aporia Consulting Ltd. and a retired associate professor from the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She was the first director of assessment for the Ontario Education Quality and Accountability Office, and she as been a researcher and research director in school districts for over 20 years.

Throughout her career, Earl has concentrated her efforts on policy and program evaluations as a vehicle to enhance learning for pupils and for organizations. She has done extensive work in the areas of literacy and the middle years, but has concentrated her efforts on issues related to evaluation of large-scale reform and assessment (large-scale and classroom) in many venues around the world. She has worked extensively in schools and school boards, and has been involved in consultation, research, and staff development with teachers' organizations, ministries of education, school districts, and charitable foundations. Earl holds a doctorate in epidemiology and biostatistics, as well as degrees in education and psychology.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Introduction

Preface

About the Author

1. The Evolution of Assessment

"The Case of Standards-Based Assessment"

Defining the Future

Ideas for Follow-Up

2. Rethinking Assessment

A Brief History of Assessment

Looking for Change in All the Wrong Places

Rethinking Assessment for Real Change

Purpose is Everything

Taking Up the Challenge

Classroom Assessment and Large-Scale Reform

Ideas for Follow-Up

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

Assessment of Learning

Assessment for Learning

Assessment as Learning

Getting the Balance Right

Ideas for Follow-Up

4. A Focus on Learning

Learning for Understanding

Learning Is Hard Work

Learning Happens in Context

Ideas for Follow-Up

5. Assessment and Learning

How Does Assessment Contribute to Learning?

This is Not Just About Assessment

Ideas for Follow-Up

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

"The Case of the Pool Table"

Start With What Students Believe to Be True

"The Case of the Bog"

Ideas for Follow-Up

7. Using Assessment to Motivate Learning

Assessment That Motivates

"The Case of Othello"

Assessment to Reverse Socialization

Ideas for Follow-Up

8. Using Assessment to Make Connections

Curricula as Visible Targets for Learning

Plan Learning, Plan Assessment, and Expect the Unexpected

"The Case of the Literacy Hour"

Differentiation

Ideas for Follow-Up

9. Using Assessment to Extend Learning

Feedback for Learning

Rubrics and Exemplars as Tools

"The Case of the Brass Band"

Ideas, Connections and Extensions (ICE)

Ideas for Follow-Up

10. Using Assessment for Reflection And Self-Monitoring

"The Case of Jojo"

Students as Their Own Best Assessors

Developing Self-Evaluation Habits of Mind

"The Case of Choices"

Ideas for Follow-Up

11.Using Assessment for Optimum Learning

Think About What You Believe to Be True

Learn About Learning

Know Your Subject

Be an Expert Teacher

Work Together

Be Gentle With Yourself, But Don't Give Up

Self-Monitoring and Self-Development for You, Too

Get the Support You Need

Put It All Together

References

Index

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