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Jackpot!
Nurturing Student Investment Through Assessment
A shift in the educator’s mindset is needed to inspire student engagement and create a positive learning experience. Jackpot! offers immediate actions and addresses the mindset shift teachers must make to truly achieve student investment in their classrooms.
Benefits
- Explore case studies covering a wide range of classroom experiences.
- Gain access to many different tools to successfully orient a growth mindset toward assessment.
- Understand the ideas behind successful assessment and how to put it into practice.
- Utilize sample charts to better direct the course of learning improvements.
- Reflect on personal classroom experiences and ways to improve.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement in a Learning Culture
Chapter 2: Assessment Purpose
Chapter 3: Assessment Architecture
Chapter 4: Interpretation of Results
Chapter 5: Communication
Chapter 6: Instructional Agility
Epilogue
STUDY GUIDE
REPRODUCIBLES
- Chapter 1: Questions to Guide Your Conversations with Students
- Chapter 2: Questions to Guide Your Conversations with Students
- Chapter 3: Questions to Guide Your Conversations with Students
- Chapter 4: Questions to Guide Your Conversations with Students
- Figure 5.2: LEARNS Acronym for Quality Feedback
- Chapter 5: Questions to Guide Your Conversations with Students
- Chapter 6: Questions to Guide Your Conversations with Students
- Figure 6.1: Checklist for Extension Activities
- Compact Conferencing Protocol Instructions
- Compact Conference Planning and Reflection Form
- Drop-By Protocol
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
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- Cooper, D. (2022). Rebooting assessment: A practical guide for balancing conversations, performances, and products. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Davies, A. (2007). Involving students in the classroom assessment process. In D. Reeves (Ed.), Ahead of the curve: The power of assessment to transform teaching and learning (pp. 31–57). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Dimich, N. (2015). Design in five: Essential phases to create engaging assessment practice. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R. (2015). In praise of American educators: And how they can become even better. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Erkens, C. (2016). Collaborative common assessments: Teamwork. Instruction. Results. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Erkens, C. (2019). The handbook for collaborative common assessments: Tools for design, delivery, and data analysis. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Erkens, C., Schimmer, T., & Dimich, N. (2017). Essential assessment: Six tenets for bringing hope, efficacy, and achievement to the classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Erkens, C., Schimmer, T., & Dimich, N. (2018). Instructional agility: Responding to assessment with real-time decisions. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Erkens, C., Schimmer, T., & Dimich, N. (2019). Growing tomorrow’s citizens in today’s classrooms: Assessing seven critical competencies. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Guskey, T. R. (2015). On your mark: Challenging the conventions of grading and reporting. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Hillman, G., & Stalets, M. (2019). Coaching your classroom: How to deliver actionable feedback to students. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Hillman, G., & Stalets, M. (2021). Assessment as a catalyst for learning: Creating a responsive and fluid process to inspire all students. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kise, J. A. G. (2021). Doable differentiation: Twelve strategies to meet the needs of all learners. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Marzano, R. J. (2019). The handbook for the new art and science of teaching. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Reibel, A. R., & Twadell, E. (Eds.). (2019). Proficiency-based grading in the content areas: Insights and key questions for secondary schools. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Schimmer, T. (2016). Grading from the inside out: Bringing accuracy to student assessment through a standards-based mindset. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Schimmer, T., Hillman, G., & Stalets, M. (2018). Standards-based learning in action: Moving from theory to practice. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Stuart, T. S., Heckmann, S., Mattos, M., & Buffum, A. (2018). Personalized learning in a PLC at Work: Student agency through the four critical questions. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Townsley, M., & Wear, N. L. (2020). Making grades matter: Standards-based grading in a secondary PLC at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- White, K. (2019). Unlocked: Assessment as the key to everyday creativity in the classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- White, K. (2022). Student self-assessment: Data notebooks, portfolios, and other tools to advance learning. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Wiliam, D. (2011). Embedded formative assessment. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Wiliam, D. (2018a). Embedded formative assessment (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
