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Best Practices in Classroom Assessment

Course Description
This course demonstrates how to integrate traditional tests with portfolios, performance-based evaluations, and other authentic assessments. Participants are introduced to the major research and work in educational assessment, measurement, and student evaluation. Core questions addressed in the course include:

What is the role of standards and standardized testing in assessment?
How can teachers and schools effectively report students' grades and progress to parents?
Why are performance tasks and performance assessments necessary for assessing students' abilities?
How can rubrics be constructed and used to inform and assess student performance?
What is the role of portfolios in a balanced assessment program?
How can teachers manage and implement portfolio systems?
In what ways should students be involved in the design of the evaluation tools?
How can balanced assessment be communicated to concerned parents?
What role does celebration of student work have in assessment?

Course Features and Materials
This course features video with classroom teaching and expert commentary, graduate-level texts, participant forums to promote in-depth discussion, and an application-based approach to assignments to ensure transfer of learning.

Video Series
SkyLight Training and Publishing, Inc. (2000). Best practices in teaching balanced assessment.
[Video series]. Arlington Heights, IL: author.

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Textbooks
Burke, K. A. (1999). The mindful school: How to assess authentic learning (3rd ed.).
Arlington Heights, IL: SkyLight Training and Publishing.

Burke, K. A., Fogarty, R., & Belgrad, S. (2002). The portfolio connection: Student work linked to standards (2nd ed.). Arlington Heights, IL: SkyLight Training and Publishing.

Popham, W. J., (2005). Classroom assessment: What teachers need to know (4th ed.)
Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Additional Courses Available
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