Design in Five: Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice, Second Edition (Make Assessments More Relevant, Meaningful, a

This second edition of the best-selling, award-winning Design in Five offers new and targeted information for reimagining assessment practices, as well as refined processes and protocols to fully engage learners. Refinements to the original five-phase protocol come from actual experiences of teachers who have engaged with the process. This is the book you need to design and use assessment well.

This book will help K-12 teachers, administrators, and students of teacher preparation courses:

• Reflect on current assessment practices to determine their effectiveness
• Learn and implement a five-phase process to design meaningful, relevant assessments that lead to high levels of learning for all
• Align and design items and tasks to learning goals
• Design assessments that help students invest in their learning and take action to improve
• Access numerous reproducible surveys, charts, and sample assessments

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Defining the Design Process
Chapter 2: Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement
Chapter 3: Analyzing Standards and Constructing Learning Progressions
Chapter 4: Crafting an Assessment Plan
Chapter 5: Creating the Assessment and Gathering the Materials
Chapter 6: Determining Scoring Schemes and Student Investment Strategies
Chapter 7: Collaboratively Engaging in the Assessment Process
Epilogue: Building Hope
Appendix: Reproducibles
References and Resources
Index