Assessment As Learning
Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning
First Edition
- Lorna M. Earl - University of Toronto, Canada
Series:
Experts In Assessment Series
Experts In Assessment Series
August 2003 | 152 pages | Corwin
This book will provide teachers and school administrators with: an understanding of the reasons behind their confusion and discomfort by detailing the way that the changing role of schooling and our increasing knowledge about the nature of learning have made classroom assessment much more complex, with a range of different purposes that require differentiated assessment practices.
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