Assessing Student Learning: From Grading to Understanding

Resource Summary

Featuring contributions from some of today's leading educators, this resource provides a range of practical processes for collaboratively examining student work, including writing samples, visual work, portfolios, and exhibitions. The text presents vivid descriptions of teachers engaged in collaborative processes in actual school settings, from early elementary through high school. Reporting on the work of several of the most important school change networks and institutes, and incorporating the perspectives of education researchers, teacher educators, administrators, and teachers, this volume builds a powerful argument for refocusing professional development on the collaborative and reflective examination of authentic student work, rather than on test scores and grades, as representations of student learning. ISBN: 978-0807737538