It's time to move our assessment practices from the 1950s to the century we're living in. It's time to invest in our teachers and local school leaders instead of in more tests. It's time to help all students understand how to unleash their strengths and gain a sense of themselves as learners capable of choosing their own paths to success. In The Perfect Assessment System, Rick Stiggins calls for the ground-up redevelopment of assessment in U.S. education. Speaking from more than 40 years of experience in the field-and speaking for all learners who hope to succeed, the teachers who want them to succeed, and the local school leaders whose aspirations for success have been thwarted by assessment traditions-Stiggins maps out the adjustments in practice and culture necessary to generate both accurate accountability data and the specific evidence of individual mastery that will support sound instructional decision making and better learning in the classroom. He addresses: Assessment purpose-how (and why) to clarify the reason for every assessment and the users it will serve. Learning targets to be assessed-how to make sure we focus on the right competencies and set consistent definitions of success. Assessment quality-how to ensure every assessment, at every level, is an excellent one. Communication of assessment results-how to share information in ways that best support diverse purposes. Assessment impact-how to link assessment to truly productive, universal student motivation. We have not yet begun to explore assessment's true potential to enhance both school quality and student well-being. Stiggins kicks off this critical conversation and charts a course for a new system that promises much higher levels of student success at a fraction of our current testing costs. The door is open for assessment reform; here is a bold plan for getting it right.

Helps learners understand how they can improve student achievement by integrating instruction and assessment. Learners should understand and be able to do the following assessment tasks upon completingStudent-Involved Assessment FOR Learning: (1) establish clear learning targets as the basis for instruction and assessment, (2) select assessment methods that align with those learning targets, (3) select and/or create high-quality assessments that accurately measure student progress to the learning targets, (4) clearly communicate assessment results to learners for both formative and summative purposes, and (5) involve students in the assessment process to develop their capabilities to be self-directed learners. Note: This is the standalone book

In Seven Strategies of Assessment Learning, author Jan Chappuis gives K to 12 classroom teachers an incisive look at seven practical strategies structured around three essential questions-Where am I going? Where am I now? and How can I close the gap? Complete with research-based recommendations about assessment practices for improving student achievement, the book is sequenced to help teachers easily weave formative assessment practices into daily teaching and assessment activities at all levels. After introducing the strategies and the research base for formative assessment practices, the remaining chapters explain each strategy in detail, provide a research-based rationale for using the strategy, describe how the strategy can be applied in contexts ranging from kindergarten through high school in a range of subject areas, and offer instructions for carrying out core procedures and suggestions for adaptations. The new features new, more recent research, extended examples of the strategies, and improved features that make the text easier to use for collaborative learning. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video, Discussion Questions, Reflection Journal, and Defining Assessments. This title is also available as a loose-leaf packaged with the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a loose-leaf version, use ISBN 013405895X. Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText* The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with embedded video, Discussion Questions, Reflection Journal, and Defining Assessments. The Enhanced Pearson eText is also available without a print version of the textbook. Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks to register for your digital examination copy. Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks. *The Enhanced eText features are only available in the Pearson eText format. They are not available in third-party eTexts or downloads.

Imagine a truly practical guide to the creation and use of assessments in higher ed. classrooms This is it--a basic, common sense assessment literacy guide that maximized quality, saves time and, turns assessment into a teaching tool. All of this is done by focusing attention on a very few simple and easy-to-apply keys to success: starting with a clear purpose and clear learning targets, building quality items, exercises or task along with proper scoring schemes for that context, and planning to communicate results effectively. But there is one more unique feature of this guide: it shows professors when and how to involve students in a self-assessment process during their learning that causes achievement to skyrocket. This instructional use of assessment, called "assessment FOR learning" has been gaining a strong reputation around the world over the past two decades as an outstanding tool to promote student confidence and strong achievement gains. In short, this book teaches how to use assessment both to support learning and to certify or verify it (as in grading). There has not been a guide like this available in higher ed every before. Be advised that royalties from its sale go directly to an endowment at Michigan State whose mission is to promote quality classroom assessment throughout our educational system--K-12 and postsecondary. In terms of specific content, the presentation addresses how to assess student mastery of content knowledge, the ability to used that knowledge to reason and solve problems, performance skills, and product development capabilities. It does so by providing hands on practice in developing four available assessment methods: selected response, extended written response, performance assessments and direct personal communication with students. In addition, the presentation on effective communication differentiates between the use of feedback to support student learning (formative applications) and to certify it (summative).