Looking Together at Student Work: A Companion Guide to Assessing Student Learning (The Series on School Reform) - Softcover

Allen, David; Blythe, Tina; Powell, Barbara Schieffelin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807738557 ISBN 13: 9780807738559

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 1999

Synopsis

The authors, whose work at Harvard Project Zero, the Coalition of Essential Schools, and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform has placed them at the forefront of new assessment strategies, have created a practical, user-friendly guide to provide teachers with strategies and resources for working together to examine and discuss student work such as science projects, essays, art work, math problems, and more. Written for teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, staff developers, and researchers, this book offers:

• A clear process for starting and sustaining collaborative discussions of student work and student learning
• Detailed descriptions of two kinds of structured conversations (the Tuning Protocol and the Collaborative Assessment Conference) that guide discussion of student work
• Real examples from schools that have developed their own ways of looking collaboratively at student work
• A useful list of resources and publications that can provide further help.

About this title

Review

The uninspiring baseline of everyday experience makes me especially excited about this probing and practical guide.... I commend these practices of looking together at student work as powerful resources not just for the technical but for the cultural enterprise of education. - From the Foreword to the second edition by David N. Perkins ""Any group of teachers, parents, or community members could use [this book] to participate in the hard work of assessing where our schools are and how they can improve."" - From the Foreword to the first edition by Kathleen Cushman

Synopsis

This is a guide to help practitioners implement the means to reflect together on the quality and value of student work, and use the experience of shared evaluation as a means to engage in whole-school reform. It includes examples from schools that have developed their own methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807738557
• ISBN 13: 9780807738559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64