November 2005
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November 2005 | Volume 63 | Number 3
Assessment to Promote Learning
Feature Articles
Perspectives / Reclaiming Testing
Marge Scherer
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Seven Practices for Effective Learning
Jay McTighe and Ken O'Connor
The best teachers recognize assessment as a tool and use it to adjust their practice and guide their students to improve.
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Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day
Siobhan Leahy, Christine Lyon, Marnie Thompson and Dylan Wiliam
From clarifying intentions to engineering classroom discussions, these strategies define everyday assessment for learning.
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Looking at How Students Reason
Marilyn Burns
Student thinking tells teachers whether a math lesson is accessible or challenging, on target or misunderstood.
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Mapping the Road to Proficiency
Thomas R. Guskey
Linking instructional activities to standards improves the diagnostic properties of classroom assessments.
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Helping Students Understand Assessment
Jan Chappuis
Do your students understand how assessments can help them gain ownership of their learning?
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Documenting Learning with Digital Portfolios
David Niguidula
Students demonstrate mastery, dramatize their successes, and communicate with their community—all through digital portfolios.
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Making Benchmark Testing Work
Joan L. Herman and Eva L. Baker
Six criteria suggest how teachers can judge whether benchmark tests provide useful diagnostic feedback.
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Gifted and Growing
Linda Clark
When bright students failed to make growth targets, an Idaho district made some changes.
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Grading to Communicate
Tony Winger
An instructional coach creates a grading system that measures learning but does not overlook effort.
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Linking Formative Assessment to Scaffolding
Lorrie A. Shepard
By using assessments as scaffolding, teachers can support students as they develop greater competence.
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Dissolving the Line Between Assessment and Teaching
Gillian D. McNamee and Jie-Qi Chen
An assessment tool called Bridging identifies ways to shape instruction for children in the primary grades.
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Show Me the Way
Matthew J. Dicks
From conferencing to science experiments, video feedback helps students quickly see ways to improve their performance.
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Departments
Voices: The Teacher / How Many Points Is This Worth?
Craig Huhn
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All About Accountability / Can Growth Ever Be Beside the Point?
W. James Popham
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Research Matters / Challenges of Value-Added Assessment
Harold C. Doran and Steve Fleischman
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The Principal Connection / Teacher Supervision: If It Ain't Working . . .
Joanne Rooney
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Special Report / The Perils of High School Exit Exams
Deborah Perkins-Gough
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Index to Advertisers_donotpublish
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ASCD Community in Action
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Web Wonders / Assessment to Promote Learning
Laura Varlas
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Online Only
EL Study Guide / Assessment to Promote Learning
Naomi Thiers
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Copyright © 2005 by Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
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