Susan M Brookhart
Author
Language
English
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Description
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 M. Brookhart offers enhanced guidance and three lenses for considering the effectiveness of feedback: (1) does it conform to the research, (2) does it offer an episode of learning for the student and teacher, and (3) does the student use the feedback to...
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Grades are imperfect, shorthand answers to "What did students learn, and how well?" In How to Use Grading to Improve Learning, best-selling author Susan M. 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. Brookhart explores topics that are fundamental to effective grading and learning practices: Acknowledging that...
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (132 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Are you picking up all your students' work is trying to tell you? In this book, assessment expert Susan M. 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. You'll learn to view students' assignments not as a verdict on right or wrong but as a window into what students "got" and how they are thinking about it. The insight you'll gain...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Educators know it's important to get students to engage in "higher-order thinking." But what does higher-order thinking actually look like? And how can K 12 classroom teachers assess it across the disciplines? Author, consultant, and former classroom teacher Susan M. Brookhart answers these questions and more in this straightforward, practical guide to assessment that can help teachers determine if students are actually displaying the kind of complex...
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xi, 159 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What is a rubric? A rubric is a coherent set of criteria for student work that describes levels of performance quality. Sounds simple enough, right? Unfortunately, rubrics are commonly misunderstood and misused. The good news is that when rubrics are created and used correctly, they are strong tools that support and enhance classroom instruction and student learning. In this comprehensive guide, author Susan M. Brookhart identifies two essential components...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides more than 60 tools, along with tips and implementation steps, for creating and using formative assessments in every grade level and subject. --Derived from cover, p. [4].
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
2nd Edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Formative assessment is one of the best ways to increase student learning and enhance teacher quality. But effective formative assessment is not part of most classrooms, largely because teachers misunderstand what it is and don't have the necessary skills to implement it.
In the updated 2nd edition of this practical guide for school leaders, authors Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart define formative assessment as an active, continual process in...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson -- what they call "today's lesson"--Or it doesn't happen at all. The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning targets. Written from students' point of view, a learning target describes a lesson-sized chunk of information and skills that students will come to know deeply. Each lesson's...
Author
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 94 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"How might we might help teachers use classroom assessments to gather appropriate evidence for all valued learning goals? How might our classroom assessments serve to promote learning, not just measure it? This book addresses these questions by offering a practical and proven Assessment Planning Framework. The Framework examines four different types of learning goals, considers various purposes and audiences for assessment, reviews five categories...