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