Teacher as Assessment Leader, The, Second Edition: (Practical Strategies for Utilizing Formative Assessment)

"Assessment remains an integral component of measuring progress toward learning goals and effectiveness of instruction. However, teachers can capitalize on assessment opportunities and reframe their strategies in ways that encourage greater student agency in learning and enable more responsiveness to identified student needs. In The Teacher as Assessment Leader, Second Edition, Thomas R. Guskey assembles a collection of thoughtful strategies and proposals for re-envisioning and re-engaging with assessment, both in its perceived purpose and employed practice, to enhance student learning and improve teacher instruction. With extensive research, illustrative examples and templates, and step-by-step strategies to employ in the classroom, teachers may come to understand assessment in a new way that offers significant benefits in redefining the educational experience"--