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Assessment
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Nine-page bibliography
compiled by Grant Wiggins with an emphasis on performance-based
assessment and reform issues |
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"Assessment Reform:
The Vision and the Tools" |
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Assessment Reform
Resource Manual |
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Assessment References |
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Excerpt from the
Relearning by Design Assessment Reform Resource manual. |
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Assessment Resources |
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Excerpt from the
Relearning by Design Assessment Reform Resource manual. |
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"Educative Assessment" |
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Book in which Grant
Wiggins makes his case school based assessments should improve
student performance, not just audit it. Published by
Jossey Bass |
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Measuring What Matters |
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Audio Tape by Grant
Wiggins |
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Next Steps |
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An overview of
possible "next steps" in assessment reform (from the classroom to
the district level) prepared by Relearning by Design |
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"Performance
Assessment in Action: Elementary" |
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Video tape from
Relearning by Design containing rich elementary level case studies
to enhance your professional development efforts |
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"Performance
Assessment in Action: Secondary" |
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Video
tape from Relearning by Design containing rich secondary level case
studies to enhance your professional development efforts |
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Task Sampler |
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Document for use in student assessment K-12. |
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Feedback: |
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Feedback |
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Videotape and Facilitator's Guide developed by Relearning by Design
intermingles theory, case studies, and instructional segments to
show teachers, coaches, administrators, and students how to
effectively use feedback. |
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Feedback: How Learning
Occurs |
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Text
of a speech given by Grant Wiggins at the American Association of
Higher Education and published in excerpts from the AAHE Bulletin |
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"Schools, Feedback,
and Clients" |
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Editorial by Grant Wiggins |
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"The Importance of
Feedback" |
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Excerpt from TIME for Teachers in which Grant Wiggins reminds us of
the purpose of assessment. (Vol. 2. Issue 1). |
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Grading Reform: |
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"Abolish the Diploma" |
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Editorial by Grant Wiggins |
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"Grading Reform
Resource Manual" |
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Relearning by Design Grading and Assessment Reform Resource
manual-including over 200 sample report cards |
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"Making the Grade:
Keynote Address" |
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Audio
Tape by Grant Wiggins from conference titled-"Making the Grade"-
November 1999 |
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"Passing Zone: The
Road to Grading Reform" |
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Video
Tape and Facilitator Guide from Relearning by Design |
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"Passing Zone: The
Road to Grading Reform" |
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Audiotape soundtrack of the video by the same name from Relearning
by Design |
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"The Malevolent
Tyranny of Algebra" |
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Article by Gerry Bracey |
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"Understanding your
Child's A's, B's and C's" |
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Time,
November 15, 1999 Grant Wiggins is interviewed by Time reporter in
this article on how to transform report cards in to useful learning
experiences for students and parents |
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Portfolio: |
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Anthology Guidelines |
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Text
provides an overview on portfolio guidelines K-12, with a
description of the "anthology" a developed by Relearning by Design. |
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Rubrics: |
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Rubrics: Kind,
Characteristics & Construction |
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Audio Tape by Everett
Kline, senior staff associate at Relearning by Design |
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Rubric Sampler |
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Document complied by Relearning by Design staff contains an overview
on rubric design and provides sample holistic and analytic trait
rubrics (scoring guides) for numerous subject areas |
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Swimming Rubric |
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Scoring guide for swimmers |
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Miscellaneous: |
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"Aphorisms on School
Reform" |
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Editorial by Grant Wiggins |
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Candid Conversations
about Our Schools: A Town Meeting |
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Videotape from Relearning by Design offering a model for dealing
with highly controversial issues in a manner of calm discussion
leading to resolution |
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Glossary |
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Eighteen page document compiled by Relearning by Design staff with
clear and concise definitions of assessment related terminology from
"achievement" to "validity" |
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Suggested Reading: |
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"How's My Kid Doing?"
by Thomas R. Guskey
Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Company
San Francisco, CA |
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This
book is so eminently clear and sensible, it should be required
reading for all educators and policy makers, not just parents. In
jargon-free prose, Guskey strips away the murkiness surrounding
grades and reporting, while never falling into oversimplification.
There are many concrete suggestions for both writers and readers of
reporting systems. A must for faculty room as well as the family
library."
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"A Tribe Apart" by
Patricia Hersch
(Ballantine Books) |
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In a
very readable fashion, this book chronicles the lives of eight
adolescents over the course of a 4 year period. The book's thesis is
that a convergence of factors of modern-day America have created a
unique adolescent culture with its own attitudes and mores (hence
the title), that most adults (including high school educators) do
not fully understand.
We found the work compelling, frequently disturbing, but always
insightful. |
