Making Classroom Assessment Work - 2nd Edition

Author: Anne Davies

In simple and easy-to-follow steps, Anne Davies leads educators to quality classroom assessment - the bridge between what research shows and what teachers can do in their classrooms to prepare students for their lifelong learning journey.

This updated 2007 edition of Making Classroom Assessment Work offers more ideas and examples of using assessment for learning to guide instruction and present evidence of success. The thoughtful and thought-provoking framework provides a guide for teachers to follow: from involving students, parents, and community members in the assessment process to evaluating and reporting progress.

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Making Classroom Assessment Work - A Journal

This journal is the perfect accompaniment for the book, Making Classroom Assessment Work - 70 unlined pages to record your thoughts and ideas, and to chart your progress on your own journey to making classroom assessment work for you. The journal also includes several learning conversations.

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Knowing What Counts Series

Authors: Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies

The Knowing What Counts Series is for middle and secondary school teachers who want to involve their students in assessment and evaluation and includes the three following titles:

• Setting and Using Criteria
• Self-Assessment and Goal-Setting
• Conferencing and Reporting

Each book focuses on practical ways for teachers to involve students in their own assessment, by using criteria and goal-setting in the classroom. The authors provide different scenarios that outline how students can demonstrate their learning to others and take active roles in conferences with parents. All three books include: cross-curricular examples, responses to commonly asked questions, and blackline masters.

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Setting and Using Criteria

Authors: Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies

Setting and Using Criteria focuses on practical ways for teachers to involve students in their own assessment. The authors outline a four-step process for setting criteria, then show how to use these criteria for assessing learning.
This book includes five starting points and ten ways to assess that focus on criteria.

Setting and Using Criteria is the first book in the Knowing What Counts series.

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Self-Assessment and Goal-Setting

Authors: Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies

Self-Assessment and Goal-Setting focuses on practical ways for teachers to involve students in their own assessment. The authors provide approaches that successfully build self-assessment and goal-setting into classroom practice.
This book includes practical ideas and twelve ways to involve students.

Self-Assessment and Goal Setting is the second book in the Knowing What Counts series.

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Conferencing and Reporting

Authors: Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies

Conferencing and Reporting is full of practical ways for teachers to involve students in their own assessment. The authors provide methods for students to take part in conferences and demonstrate their own learning. The end result is improved learning, as students are participants, not bystanders. This book includes classroom ideas and fourteen ways to involve students in presenting evidence of learning.

Conferencing and Reporting is the third book in the Knowing What Counts series.

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Classroom Assessment: What's Working in High Schools?

Editors: Anne Davies, Kathy Busick

In this two-book set, renowned leader in the field of classroom assessment, Anne Davies, and researcher/writer, Kathy Busick, have gathered the wisdom and expertise of twenty-two educators from Canada, the United States, and Europe.

The authors are both high school teachers from a variety of disciplines and professionals in supporting roles. These books offer a rich collection of practical classroom assessment ideas and solutions, as well as blackline masters. They will benefit teachers, teacher-leaders, principals, and district administrators in their daily work, giving them the understanding and confidence to carry out quality classroom assessment that will create and support successful lifelong learners.

Book One themes, Beginning with Students and Learning Along with Students, introduce the dynamic process of assessment for learning by focusing on engaging students in planning for the learning destination, co-constructing criteria and using feedback to strengthen their work.

Book Two themes, Involving Students in Providing Proof of Learning and Reconsidering Marking, Grading, and Reporting, continue the process by highlighting strategies for collecting and presenting evidence, as well as using criteria-based proof of learning to report student achievement according to required regulations. A summary of key research about classroom assessment is also featured.

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Together is Better

Authors: Anne Davies, Caren Cameron, Colleen Politano, Kathleen Gregory

As educators move toward more learner-focused teaching, they face new challenges assessing, evaluating, and reporting the learning that takes place in their classrooms.

Together is Better shows how teachers, students, and parents can evaluate learning together, and how students can take ownership of that learning. This book provides many valuable examples and strategies for collaboration including:

• the process for three-way reporting and three-way conferencing
• setting learning goals and evaluation criteria with students and parents
• helping students to recognize and evaluate their own learning
• informal reports and other communication techniques
• integrating assessment, evaluation, and reporting into daily classroom life
• guidelines and inventories for complete reports

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Learning with Readers Theatre

Authors: Anne Davies, Neill Dixon, Colleen Politano

Readers Theatre is a simple, effective, and risk-free way to get children reading. Stories and concepts come alive as children write, perform, and interpret their roles. Learning with Readers Theatre provides strategies, organizers, and scripts that can be used as is, or as models for readers' own scripts. You'll find a myriad of great ideas for:

• Planning and organizing Readers Theatre
• Oral interpretation
• Connecting Readers Theatre to storytelling
• Writing scripts, both original and adapted
• Staging and blocking
• Crosscurricular connections
• Integrating, and involving children in, assessment and evaluation
• Inviting, including, and informing others

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Making Themes Work

Authors: Caren Cameron, Anne Davies, Colleen Politano

Making Themes Work shows teachers how to organize curriculum and effectively integrate learning experiences using themes. It gives educators the information they need to make themes work for them and their students. In Making Themes Work, you'll find many valuable examples and strategies, including:

• Innovative ways for students to show what they know
• Practical ways to think about theme planning
• Powerful evaluation strategies
• Classroom tested ways to manage and organize themes
• Common questions about themes and their answers
• Ways to inform parents, administrators, and colleagues about learning through themes

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Multi-Age and More (also available in French)

Authors: Anne Davies, Colleen Politano

Every classroom is a "multi-age" classroom: even same-age students have varied skills, abilities, and interests. Multi-Age and More is for all teachers of single-age and multi-age classes who are looking for ways to meet the challenges of learners and their diverse learning needs.

This book provides teachers with criteria, organizers, and practical strategies for teaching any multi-age, multi-ability, and multi-interest class. In it you'll find over 85 ideas to help you:

• Plan, organize, and modify the curriculum
• Get students to represent their thinking and show you what they know
• Design instruction to meet the needs of your students
• Make assessment and evaluation an integral part of your students' learning and your teaching
• Use available physical space, materials, and supplies effectively
• Work with parents, colleagues, and school educators

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La MultiClasse link (en francais)

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