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Talk About Assessment
High School Strategies and Tools
Assessment that guides instruction is the key to effective student learning: This concept is at the centre of Talk About Assessment: High School Strategies and Tools, a comprehensive resource that speaks directly to the high school classroom teacher. The text resource is divided into five sections:

• Section 1 presents the eight Big Ideas of assessment and the new challenges faced by today’s high school educators.
• Section 2 explains the importance of planning instruction with the end in mind.
• Section 3 is focused on assessment for learning—assessment that supports and promotes student learning.
• Section 4 provides strategies and tools for recording and communicating information about student learning.
• Section 5 speaks about strategies for implementing change in assessment practice - strategies for teachers, school administrators, and district staff.

The accompanying DVD includes the tools referred to in the text (as well as other useful planning templates, rubrics, checklists, and sample units) in modifiable format for quick and easy classroom use. The DVD also includes ten video clips featuring teachers and students actively engaged in planning, learning, and assessment.

Talk About Assessment
Strategies and Tools to Improve Learning
Talk about Assessment: Strategies and Tools to Improve Learning is a "must have" resource for every elementary teacher. It can make your own assessment practices more effective and efficient, while helping your students improve their learning. Organized around eight big ideas, this handbook uses case studies, classroom examples, and reality-based dialogues to clarify assessment concepts. The book has 17 chapters that are organized into these four sections:

1. Assessment Basics
2. What’s In My Assessment Toolkit?
3. Program Planning with Assessment in Mind
4. Grading, Reporting, and Communicating about Student Learning

Getting Assessment Right: Language
Grades1-8
This concise (38 page) handbook describes the required knowledge and skills in a complete and effective Grades 1-8 language program.
Expertly designed rubrics show four levels of achievement in all key components in the language program.
The program descriptions and the rubrics describe the program components and how student achievement is assessed.
The first copy purchased by a school is a School Master Copy. The school receives full reproduction rights to duplicate that handbook for all staff within the school.

 

Getting Assessment Right: Mathematics
Grades 1-8
A concise (66 pages) handbook of expertly designed mathematics learning and assessment tasks.
The range of assessment activities gives teachers many ways to plan active learning in the classroom and to assess student achievement.
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GradePARtner
Web-Based Assessment Planning and Mark Management...the Wave of the Future
Be the first to harness the power of the Internet for assessment and evaluation. Introducing Ontario's first web-based tool for assessment planning and mark management. GradePARtner provides an efficient, consistent and pedagogically-sound approach to assessment and evaluation for a school district.
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Nelson Mathematics K- 8
Damian Cooper, Series Assessment Consultant

Nelson Mathematics is an exciting new K-8 program developed specifically to meet the needs and respond to the challenges of today's Canadian mathematics classroom. After two years of extensive research, Nelson is pleased to introduce this practical and manageable program that provides 100% fit to provincial curricula and assessment standards.