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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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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