Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Assessment and Grading: (Your Guide to Solving the Most Challenging Questions about How to Effectively Implement Assessment and Grading)

Get answers to your most challenging questions about implementing effective assessment and grading practices. How do we use assessments to increase hope, efficacy, and achievement? Is reassessment important? Can we change grading practices when stakeholders don’t want us to? All of these questions, and dozens more, are answered concisely, making it easy to build strong assessment and grading practices quickly.

K-12 teachers and administrators will:

Understand the six tenets of assessment and grading.
Gain confidence in effective assessment and grading practices.
Access concise answers to common questions about assessment and grading.
Help implement schoolwide best practices through effective collaboration.

Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement
Chapter 2: A Culture of Learning
Chapter 3: Assessment Purpose
Chapter 4: Communication
Chapter 5: Accurate Interpretation
Chapter 6: Assessment Architecture
Chapter 7: Instructional Agility
Chapter 8: Student Investment
Table of Contents by Topic
Glossary of Terms
A Comprehensive Resource List From STAC
References and Resources
Index