Presents a collection of incorrect yet humorous test answers from real students, from an elementary student claiming that "two halves make a whale" to a high schooler who credits Galileo with inventing the solar system.

Suggested resources to assist in the implementation of Assessment for learning strategies, and to encourage an exploration of the thinking behind those strategies, are available as follows: Each video focuses on a particular aspect of Assessment for learning.

Published in 1918, this volume sets out Pintner's tests "to measure roughly the intelligence of large groups of children." The book is divided into two parts: "The Tests and their Standardization" and "A Guide for the Use of the Survey Tests."

"Common formative assessments are a fundamental aspect of collaborative instruction. In this new and revised second edition of Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work®, the authors return with updated and improved resources to help teachers use formative data to bring about more learning. With data-driven techniques and a wealth of new tools, learn how to improve collaboration and student engagement throughout...

Assessment for learning: peer feedback and student self-assessment explores some of the ways in which teachers can encourage self-assessment by students. As a precursor to self-assessment, it also examines the role that can be played by peer feedback in the classroom. Video clips of interviews with teachers and students examine self-assessment and peer feedback, while classroom footage and a number of tools can be used by teachers in the classroom...

Standards-based grading paradigm allows methods to support students rather than judge, empowers learning rather than control, gives choices rather than mandates, and dignifies failure as a part of learning.-p.37.

This book gives readers a balanced look at the issue of standardized testing in schools and its surrounding arguments. Standardized Testing in Schools familiarizes readers with the No Child Left Behind Act, the history of testing in schools, standards and scoring, test writing, and the effects of testing on education as a whole. In addition, issues surrounding cheating among students, teachers, states, and districts are included, as well as public...

Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education, critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple, yet difficult, truth about how we can create actual change in public schools. A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, this work is a radical change of heart from one of America's best known education experts. The author, a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum,...

"Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-style evaluations, and top-down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit, and millions of students have been left educationally impoverished. This troubling transformation has been exhaustively...