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Design in Five, Second Edition
Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice
“The singular contribution of this book is shifting the focus of assessment from external audiences to students,” writes author and assessment expert Douglas Reeves in the foreword. Design in Five [Second Edition] inspires educators to rethink old ways of assessing student learning and empowers them to create meaningful, relevant assessments to ensure high levels of learning.
Benefits
- Reflect on current assessment practices to determine their effectiveness
- Learn and implement a five-phase process to design meaningful, relevant assessments that lead to high levels of learning for all
- Align and design items and tasks to learning goals
- Design assessments that help students invest in their learning and take action to improve
- Access numerous reproducible surveys, charts, and sample assessments
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Defining the Design Process
Chapter 2: Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement
Chapter 3: Analyzing Standards and Constructing Learning Progressions (Laddering)
Chapter 4: Crafting an Assessment Plan
Chapter 5: Creating the Assessment and Gathering the Materials
Chapter 6: Determining a Scoring Scheme and Student-Investment Strategies
Chapter 7: Collaboratively Engaging in the Assessment Process
Epilogue
Appendix
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 2 Resources
Chapter 3 Reproducibles
- Figure 3.3: Protocol for Phase Two—Analyzing Standards and Sketching Out Learning Goals
- Screencast of Nicole Modeling Phase Two for a Fifth-Grade Reading Assessment
Chapter 3 Resources
Chapter 4 Reproducibles
- Figure 4.2: Assessment Methods Reflection
- Screencast of Nicole Modeling Phase Two for a Fifth-Grade Reading Assessment
Chapter 4 Resources
Chapter 5 Reproducibles
- Writing Quality Constructed-Response Items
- Figure 5.10: Single-Point Rubric for Writing
- Screencast of Nicole Modeling Phase Four for a Fifth-Grade Reading Assessment
Chapter 5 Resources
Chapter 6 Reproducibles
- Figure 6.4: A Pathway to Student Investment Rubric
- Figure 6.8: Form for Descriptive Feedback and Student Self-Assessment
- Survey for Gathering Student Thoughts About Assessment
- Figure 6.13: Reading Comprehension Student Tracking and Goal Setting
Chapter 7 Reproducibles
Appendix Reproducibles
- The Design in Five Process
- Examples to Prompt Ideas
- Vet Your Current Assessment With the Three Design Qualities
- Assessment Beliefs Survey
- Assessment Practices Strengths and Next-Steps Reflection
- Phase One: Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement
- Phase Two: Analyzing Standards and Constructing Learning Progressions
- Phase Three: Assessment Plan Template
- Phase Four: Assessment Tasks Per Cognitive Level
- Performance Assessment Template
- The Work of Collaborative Teams: Connecting Design in Five, Professional Learning Communities, and Response to Intervention
- Implementation Reflection on the Work of Collaborative Teams
- The Pile, Stack, Plan Method
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