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Assessing Learning in the Classroom (Student Assessment Series) (Student Assessment Series)
Jay McTighe, Steven Ferrara

National Education Association, 1998

Offers advice on testing students from the teacher's perspective. The author stresses the appropriate use of large-scale standardized testing, but focuses on classroom assessment techniques as well. You'll find strategies for developing, scoring and interpreting classroom assessments that provide greater insight into the individual instructional needs of each child. Also available: Assessing English Language Learners - ISBN 0810620766 ...

Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model

1 review
Robert J. Marzano, Debra Pickering, ...

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 1993

Developing Thoughtful Assessment
In this book, Marzano begins to refine an assessment model that ten years later has become widely embraced in the profession. Because he is basing it on his Dimensions of Learning model, it is unbelievably complex--that is, unbelievable to the classroom educator he hopes will use it to painstakingly analyze the multiple components of learning articulated by the model. As an exercise in ...

Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom: Using Performance Criteria for Assessing and Improving Student Performance ...

2 reviews
Judith A. Arter, Jay McTighe

Corwin Press, 2000

Great Book for Professors Interested in Grading Objectively!
Although one can never be truly objective, this book is a good step in the right direction. It explains what rubrics are, the theory behind them, and testimonials as to how they can be used. Many science professors use rubrics, but few arts faculty are aware that such cut and dried schemes can be useful to them. Interestingly, if you are instructing adults (e.g. post-secondary), rubrics not ...

Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook

10 reviews
Jay McTighe, Grant Wiggins

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2004

Backward design fan
This book complements in practical form the ideas presented in Understanding by Design (UbD). I am using this book as a guide for the design of courses online in higher education. Both have been a wonderful aid to rationalize the amount of resources that I must include in the courses online that I am developing. They are effective tools to determine in concise form and practices the synchronous ...

Schooling by Design: Mission, Action, and Achievement
Grant P. Wiggins, Jay McTighe

ASCD, 2007

Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design (Connecting Content and Kids)

10 reviews
Carol Ann Tomlinson, Jay McTighe

ASCD, 2006

A Must Read
As a professional educator who is interested in curriculum development and student success, I couldn't put this book down! Tomlinson an McTighe are both experts on their perspective topics of differentiation and assessment, so the pairing of these two made for informative reading. We want to reach every student to the point that they understand the essential learnings, and these two make ...

Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition

30 reviews
Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe

Prentice Hall, 2005

Fresh approach to curriculum design
I've used this book for three years in my graduate Curriculum Design courses for teachers. My students are practicing teachers who have seen dozens of lesson planning approaches and don't need some new theory just for the fun of it. But Wiggins and McTighe present a fresh perspective that doesn't so much replace as reposition traditional approaches. It boils down to what they call backward ...

Set of Two Books - Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook and Understanding by Design ...
Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins

ASCD, 2005

Set of two softcover, both 8 12" x 11" and Workbook has 295 pages, copyright 2004. Expanded 2nd Edition "Understanding by Design has 370 pages, copyright 2005.