Bøger af Susan M. Brookhart

Are you picking up all your students' work is trying to tell you? In this book, assessment expert Susan Brookhart and instructional coach Alice Oakley walk teachers through a better and more illuminating way to approach student work across grade levels and content areas.

To be effective, grading policies and practices must be based on trustworthy research evidence. By distilling the vast body of research evidence into meaningful, actionable findings and strategies, this book is the jump-start all stakeholders need to build a better understanding of what works - and where to go from here.

Grades are imperfect, shorthand answers to "What did students learn, and how well?" In How to Use Grading to Improve Learning, Susan Brookhart guides educators at all levels in figuring out how to produce grades-for single assignments and report cards - that accurately communicate students' achievement of learning goals.

Best-selling author Susan Brookhart helps teachers and administrators understand the critical elements and nuances of assessment data and how that information can best be used to inform improvement efforts in the school or district.

Offers practical advice, strategies, and examples to help teachers understand what the differences are between group projects and cooperative learning; how to assess and report on learning skills and group interaction skills; how to assess and grade individual achievement of learning goals; and why having students work together is a good thing.

With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember facts and procedures. But what's the best way for teachers to ensure that students have such skills? In this highly accessible guide, Susan Brookhart shows how to do just that.

In this comprehensive guide, author Susan Brookhart identifies two essential components of effective rubrics: criteria that relate to the learning (not the "tasks") that students are being asked to demonstrate, and clear descriptions of performance across a continuum of quality.

Properly crafted and individually tailored feedback on student work boosts student achievement across subjects and grades. In this updated and expanded second edition of her best-selling book, Susan Brookhart offers enhanced guidance and three lenses for considering the effectiveness of feedback.

For a wide variety of courses in classroom assessment.This highly respected text offers the most comprehensive discussion of traditional and alternative assessments of any classroom assessment textexplaining, giving examples, discussing pros and cons, and showing how to construct virtually all of the traditional and alternative assessments teachers use in the classroom. The author explores assessment theories and research findings as they affect teaching and learning, and examines why, when, and how teachers should use assessment in the classroom. To the text's hundreds of practical examples are added checklists to aid in evaluating assessment vehicles and scores of strategies for assessing higher-order thinking, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.