With its foundation in principles introduced in the author's bestselling Visible Learning for Literacy, this resource delves more deeply into the critical component of self-assessment. Developing Assessment-Capable Visible Learners reveals:

• The most effective types of assessment and how each can motivate students to higher levels of achievement.

• How to introduce students to the tools they will use to support their own learning, along with the know-how they need to choose the right tool for any learning challenge.

• How to create a classroom culture where errors are viewed as opportunities to learn.

• The learning strategies, including cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational strategies, that fuel student progress, and how to give students opportunities to use them.

• Real-world examples of the strategies and tools at work, through classroom scenarios contained in the book and online videos accessible via QR codes.

Talk About Assessment: High School Strategies and Tools builds upon the eight big ideas of assessment as outlined in Damian Cooper's bestselling book Talk About Assessment. This concise reference handbook includes practical tools for all types of assessment: case studies, anecdotes, rubrics, checklists, and test items. Provides support for all assessments: diagnostic, formative, and summative. The book is divided into two sections. The first section describes best practice in assessment in an easy-to-understand manner. The second section comprises hands-on tools to

help you implement these practices in your classroom. Included with Talk About Assessment: High School Strategies and Tools is a companion DVD featuring all assessment tools referred to in the book in modifiable form to enable teachers to adapt and customize tools to meet their individual needs.

Effective classroom formative assessment helps educators make minute-by-minute, day-by-day instructional decisions. This clear, practical guide for teachers centers on five key instructional strategies, along with an overview of each strategy and practical formative assessment techniques for implementing it in K-12 classrooms.

Communicating about student achievement requires accurate, consistent and meaningful grades. Educators interested in examining and improving grading practices should ask the following questions: Am I confident that students in my classroom receive consistent, accurate and meaningful grades that support learning? Am I confident that the grades I assign students accurately reflect my school or district’s published performance standards and desired learning outcomes?

In many schools, the answers to these questions often range from "not very" to "not at all." When that’s the case, grades are "broken" and teachers and schools need a "repair kit" to fix them. A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades, gives teachers and administrators 15 ways to make the necessary repairs.

This guide describes indicators of successful assessment practice and ways of supporting teachers in the classroom, as well as examples of how leaders have modelled assessment for learning to colleagues and students in their school communities. It offers a practical approach to the challenges of meeting traditional evaluation standards, while assessing learning in many other ways. This book also features a collection of pertinent research summaries, as well as reproducibles to help implement the ideas into practice.

In The Perfect Assessment System, Rick Stiggins calls for the ground-up redevelopment of assessment in U.S. education. Speaking from more than 40 years of experience in the field —and speaking for all learners who hope to succeed, the teachers who want them to succeed, and the local school leaders whose aspirations for success have been thwarted by assessment traditions—Stiggins maps out the adjustments in practice and culture necessary to generate both accurate accountability data and the specific evidence of individual mastery that will support sound instructional decision making and better learning in the classroom.

Setting and Using Criteria is chock full of practical ways to help teachers increase student engagement, learning and achievement by involving students in the process of classroom assessment. This book shows teachers how to co-construct criteria with students using a simple four-step process and then how to use the co-constructed criteria for assessing products, processes and collections of evidence of learning.

Choose soft edges over hard edges to deliver assessment for learning and student engagement. Align students’ and teachers’ needs with assessment practices meant to meet learning targets. Use responsible assessment methods to smoothly guide students so confidence grows and their experiences are positive and relevant.