Connecting standards and assessment through literacy

✍ Scribed by Mark William Conley

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Taking a common sense approach to the complex set of assessment challenges teachers face today, respected author Mark Conley maps a clear route to balance in the use of large-scale assessment to serve its intended purposes and the use of classroom assessment to meet the information needs of its intended users. Sure to get students engaged and thinking critically about assessment in standards-based schools, Conley challenges students to address a critical assessment issue: assessment, evaluation and grading practices born and bred to produce dependable rankings-that is, to help only a few students succeed-must now be transformed into practices that permit all students to succeed. Some of the topics featured in the text (e.g. No Child Left Behind, national and state standards and instruction in relation to assessment) have been carefully selected for their currency, importance and students' needs.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 14
FOREWORD......Page 16
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 18
SECTION ONE High Standards and High-Stakes Assessment: The Literacy Connection......Page 22
1 Higher Educational
Standards......Page 24
2 High-Stakes Assessment......Page 32
SECTION TWO Connecting Standards,
Assessment, and Daily
Practice......Page 42
3 Clarifying and
Communicating about
Standards......Page 44
4 Clarifying and
Communicating
about Testing......Page 56
5 Making Standards
Work for You......Page 67
6 When “Teaching to the
Test” Is Just
Good Curriculum......Page 81
7 Building Lessons around
Test-Taking Skills
That Matter......Page 96
8 Integrating Standards and
Assessment through
Daily Practice......Page 111
9 Promoting Reading
Fluency......Page 123
SECTION THREE Connecting Classroom
Practice to Student
Achievement......Page 132
10 Making Sense of
Large-scale Assessment
Information......Page 134
11 Selecting, Designing,
and Using Classroom
Assessments......Page 146
12 Communicating
Assessment Information......Page 166
APPENDIX A......Page 174
APPENDIX B......Page 176
REFERENCES......Page 180
INDEX......Page 184