VIDEOS

Performance Assessment in Action:
Best of Elementary & Secondary

Whether your goal is to take a faculty experienced in alternative assessment to a more sophisticated level, or to move novices beyond theory into practice, these rich video case studies will enhance your professional development efforts.
Best of Elementary Case Studies
Cases featuring elementary school assessment include:

• First grade reading (Penfield, New York)

• Second grade language arts (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

• Elementary math (Frederick County, Maryland)

• Language arts portfolio (Upper Arlington, Ohio)

Best of Secondary Case Studies
Cases featuring secondary school assessment include:

• Middle school social science (Shoreham­Wading River Schools, New York)

• Eighth grade school-wide science assessment (South Orange­Maplewood, New Jersey)

• Tenth grade Socratic seminar (North Shore, New York) 

One of our popular video releases consolidates the most effective case studies from our classic series Standards, Not Standardization: Re-thinking Assessment, written and narrated by Grant Wiggins. The videos include commentary and supporting print material which is organized for use at either the elementary or secondary level.

Price: $150 each
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Feedback

Good feedback is the key to learning.  But educators are surprisingly unclear about what feedback is (and isn¹t) and how to design efficient and effective systems. This video helps answer many questions about feedback including:

• How does feedback differ from merely praising or giving advice?  

• How does the giver ensure that the feedback will be heard?

• How can we teach students and teachers to more aggressively seek out feedback and use it to self-assess performance?  

• How can we design powerful feedback systems that minimize the need for one-to-one tutorials?  

• How should student testing be changed to make it a robust feedback system?

Building upon more than a decade of work in assessment and curricular reform (and more than six prior Relearning by Design videos on assessment), Grant Wiggins and his colleagues turn their attention to feedback‹arguably the most overlooked but important concept in education for improving performance.  The 55-minute tape, and accompanying facilitator guide, intermingle theory, case studies, and instructional segments about how to give and use feedback‹from the young student trying to improve as a writer to the veteran

The video serves as a companion to Grant Wiggins¹ book Educative Assessment, published by Jossey-Bass.

Price: $295
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Passing Zone: The Road to Grading Reform

Teachers and professors everywhere give grades.  In our 39-minute video Passing Zone: The Road to Grading Reform we explore these and other fundamental issues on the topic of grading and reporting:

• Why are so many students dissatisfied with grading practices?

• Why are so few educators happy with the results?  

• What are some practical first steps to implement grading and reporting changes in a school or school district?  

• Can we successfully implement grading reform without assessment reform?  

Our successful two-day workshop, Making the Grade: A Conference on Grading and Reporting provides the backdrop as we examine critical assumptions while exploring common misunderstandings and misconceptions.

The video includes segments with educational consultants Thomas R.  Guskey, Ken O¹Connor, Robert Marzano;  Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, authors and international speakers on the topic of Assessment Reform;  Bradley Quin of The College Board; Fred Hargadon from Princeton University; William Hiss from Bates College; parents, students, teachers and others.

Passing Zone: The Road to Grading Reform is only $195 and is packaged with a brief facilitator guide which provides some of the tools and support you will need to explore grading reform.

In addition, our Grading Reform Manual is available.  At only $135, it includes 250+ pages of information, resources, and references, including almost 200 sample report cards collected from across the country.  

Purchase both for only $295 (a savings of $25). The video sound track (abridged) is also available as an audio tape at only $15.

Prices: Audio Tape: $15, Grading Manual: $135, Video: $195, Video w/ Manual: $295

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