Simplifying Common Assessment: A Guide for Professional Learning Communities at Work (How Teachers Can Develop Effective and Efficient Assessments)

Built on the process featured in Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for PLCs at Work, this book demonstrates how educators can develop effective and efficient assessments. The authors simplify assessment development to give teacher teams the confidence to write and use team-designed common formative assessments that help ensure all students master essential skills and concepts. Benefits: Gain strategies for how to identify and unwrap power standards to use as the basis for learning targets and common formative assessments. Use protocols and reproducibles to facilitate the formative assessment process. Get tools to create pacing guides and to design units for conducting and responding to assessments. Explore ideas on how to encourage students to become actively involved in the assessment process. Contents: Introduction: Framing the Power of Assessment in Professional Learning Communities Chapter 1: Clarifying Assessment Types and Uses Chapter 2: Starting With the End in Mind Chapter 3: Considering Rigor and Complexity Chapter 4: Intentionally Planning Instruction and Assessment Chapter 5: Creating Questions, Tasks, and Tools That Work Chapter 6: Using Data to Support Student Learning Chapter 7: Focusing on Feedback and Grappling With Grading Chapter 8: Using Common Assessments With Singleton Teachers Appendix: Using a Road Map to Implement Common Assessments Read more