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Design in Five
Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice
Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging. Evaluate whether your current assessments meet the design criteria, and discover how to use this process collaboratively with your team
Benefits
- Create engaging assessments that accurately report students' progress.
- Design assessments that help students learn from their mistakes and motivate them to improve.
- Work collaboratively to analyze standards and create common assessments.
- Evaluate the cognitive level of assessment items and tasks.
- Gain access to reproducibles and other recommended resources to deepen your understanding of assessment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement
Chapter 2: Analyzing the Standards and Sketching Out Learning Goals
Chapter 3: Crafting an Assessment Plan
Chapter 4: Creating the Assessment and Gathering the Materials
Chapter 5: Determining Student Investment and the Reporting Method
Chapter 6: Collaborating to Create Assessments
Epilogue: Building Hope
Appendix: Reproducibles
REPRODUCIBLES
Introduction
- Additional Resources
- Assessment Beliefs Survey
- Assessment Practice Strengths and Next-Steps Reflection
- The Design in Five Process
- Review Your Current Assessment With the Three Design Qualities
Resources
Chapter 1: Reproducibles
Chapter 1: Resources
Chapter 2: Reproducibles
Chapter 2: Resources
Chapter 3: Reproducibles
Chapter 3: Resources
Chapter 4: Reproducibles
- Completed Performance Assessment Plan for the American Dream Unit
- Phase Four: Assessment Tasks Per Cognitive Level
- Rubric for Assessing Collaborative Work
- Second-Grade Money-Assessment Plan
- Socratic Dialogue Rubric
Chapter 4: Resources
- Academy of Achievement, "Joyce Carol Oates Interview for National Book Award”
- Allison Linn, "The state of the American dream? Uncertain”
- Artsonia
- Center for the Study of the American Dream, Annual State of the American Dream Survey™
- Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, "PARCC Task Prototypes and Sample Items”
- Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, "Sample Items and Performance Tasks”
Chapter 5: Reproducibles
- Complete Summative Assessment for the American Dream Unit
- Form for Descriptive Feedback and Student Self-Assessment
- Reading Comprehension Student Tracking and Goal Setting
- Scores According to Essential Standard
Chapter 5: Resources
- Center for the Study of the American Dream, Annual State of the American Dream Survey™
- CVU Learns
- Looking at Student Work
- TeacherTube
- YouTube
Chapter 6: Reproducibles
- The Assessment Work of Teams
- Instructional Response Planning Form
- Sample Common Assessment Weekly Calendar
Chapter 6: Resources