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How to Assess Authentic Learning
Contributor(s): Burke, Kathleen B. (Author)

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 ISBN: 141296279X     ISBN-13: 9781412962797
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
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Published: October 2009
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Annotation: This fifth edition of the bestseller helps educators meet today's accountability requirements with a wide range of updated, easy-to-implement alternative assessments. The author demonstrates practical applications of assessment strategies and offers step-by-step guidelines for building observation checklists, developing unit plans using a multiple intelligences grid, designing performance tasks and rubrics, assessing student interviews and conferences, and much more.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Testing & Measurement
Dewey: 371.264
LCCN: 2009023353
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 8.45" W x 10.97" L (1.39 lbs) 232 pages
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Index
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 220
 
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Create assessments that meet state standards and target students' learning needs!

In this revised edition of her bestseller, Kay Burke provides a wide range of easy-to-implement alternative assessments that address today's accountability requirements. Designed for use across all content areas, these formative assessments are rooted in the language of state standards and emphasize differentiating instruction to meet students' diverse learning needs. Updated research and examples help K-12 teachers:

  • Build Response to Intervention checklists for struggling students
  • Develop unit plans using differentiated learning and assessment strategies
  • Create portfolios that emphasize metacognition
  • Design performance tasks that motivate and engage students
  • Construct rubrics that describe indicators of quality work
  • Create tests that focus on higher-order thinking skills

Contributor Bio(s): Burke, Kathleen B.: - Kay Burke has served as an award-winning classroom teacher and a school administrator, university instructor, and international professional developer. She works with Kay Burke & Associates, LLC, to provide workshops for teachers and administrators in standards-based learning, performance assessment, classroom management, mentoring, and portfolio development. For the past 18 years, Burke has presented at state and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NAESP, NASSP, NMSA, and IRA as well as international conferences in Canada and Australia. She is the author of 10 professional development books and coauthor of a college textbook on assessment. Corwin Press published Burke's best-selling From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K-8 (2006), a 2007 finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing presented by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other books published by Corwin Press include How to Assess Authentic Learning, Fourth Edition (2005) and What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom (Third Edition).Burke, Kathleen (Kay) B.: - Kay Burke has served as an award-winning classroom teacher and a school administrator, university instructor, and international professional developer. She works with Kay Burke & Associates, LLC, to provide workshops for teachers and administrators in standards-based learning, performance assessment, classroom management, mentoring, and portfolio development. For the past 18 years, Burke has presented at state and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NAESP, NASSP, NMSA, and IRA as well as international conferences in Canada and Australia. She is the author of 10 professional development books and coauthor of a college textbook on assessment. Corwin Press published Burke's best-selling From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K-8 (2006), a 2007 finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing presented by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other books published by Corwin Press include How to Assess Authentic Learning, Fourth Edition (2005) and What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom (Third Edition).
 
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