How to Assess Authentic Learning

Create assessments that meet state standards and target students’ learning needs! In this revised edition of her bestseller, Kay Burke provides a wide range of easy-to-implement alternative assessments that address today’s accountability requirements. Designed for use across all content areas, these formative assessments are rooted in the language of state standards and emphasize differentiating instruction to meet students’ diverse learning needs. Updated research and examples help K–12 teachers: <ul>
<li>Build Response to Intervention checklists for struggling students</li> <li>Develop unit plans using differentiated learning and assessment strategies</li> <li>Create portfolios that emphasize metacognition</li> <li>Design performance tasks that motivate and engage students</li> <li>Construct rubrics that describe indicators of quality work</li> <li>Create tests that focus on higher-order thinking skills</li> </ul>

Education & Teaching

Burke, Kathleen B.

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

This updated edition helps K–12 teachers build observation checklists, develop unit plans, and design performance tasks and rubrics that address mandated academic standards

From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps, 6-12: Tools for Assessing Student Learning

This comprehensive professional development package helps teachers build observation checklists, develop unit plans, and design performance tasks and rubrics that address mandated academic standards.Includes: DVD (69 min.), Facilitator′s Guide, CD-ROM, Companion Book

How to Assess Authentic Learning (Multimedia Kit): A Multimedia Kit for Professional Development

Practical tools for translating standards to rubrics and ensuring high student achievement! Burke’s six-step process helps educators create tasks that promote learning for all students and write rubrics linked straight to the requirements of state standards. Featuring templates and sample tasks, rubrics, and units, this updated bestseller shows educators how to create more complex performance tasks, work in grade-level or vertical teams, and: <ul>
<li>Apply the six-step process to link teaching and assessment to standards</li> <li>Build their own tasks, checklists, and rubrics</li> <li>Differentiate for special needs within standards-linked tasks</li> <li>Share checklists and rubrics with students for ongoing formative assessment and self-assessment</li> </ul>

From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Formerly a SkyLight publication. Effective classroom management doesn′t just happen. Discover what experts in the field and classroom are saying in this timely collection of the best and the most current thinking on classroom management. Managing the Interactive Classroom: A Collection of Articles provides direction for establishing a caring, cooperative classroom climate that promotes learning and positive social skills, and helps guard against violent behaviors.

Managing the Interactive Classroom: A Collection of Articles

Formerly a SkyLight publication Kay Burke discusses the two major types of portfolios―professional growth and performance―and walks teachers through every aspect of developing and maintaining a useful piece.

Designing Professional Portfolios for Change

Formerly a SkyLight publication. Assessment has emerged as one of the major components in the restructured school. "Alternative," "performance," and "authentic assessment" are on the lips of every educator, administrator, and consultant in the country. Renowned author and educator Dr. Kay Burke supplies teachers with a wide range of alternative assessments that can be implemented easily and immediately into their classrooms, and takes readers step-by-step in building a conceptual understanding of this approach and demonstrates practical applications of assessment strategies. Teachers will gain insight into: <ul>
<li>Building observation checklists </li>
<li>What metacognitive reflection is and how to use it </li>
<li>Developing a unit plan using a multiple intelligences grid </li>
<li>Designing performance tasks and rubrics </li>
<li>When and where to use learning logs and journals </li>
<li>New ways to assess student interviews and conferences </li>
<li>A more effective approach to using grades </li>
<li>Constructing better teacher-made tests</li>
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Formerly a SkyLight publication This nationally recognized educator and teacher trainer offers both new and veteran teachers updated strategies to meet the critical challenges of today′s diverse classrooms and the unique needs of their students.

What to Do With the Kid Who. . .: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline, and Responsibility in the Classroom

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Mental Health

Formerly a SkyLight publication The Portfolio Connection offers practical advice and user-friendly strategies for including portfolios in the classroom, with a focus on incorporating standards.

Portfolio Connection, 2nd Edition

Fogarty, Robin J.

Belgrad, Susan F.

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Books by Burke, Kathleen B.

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How to Assess Authentic Learning

How to Assess Authentic Learning

From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps, 6-12: Tools for Assessing Student Learning

How to Assess Authentic Learning (Multimedia Kit): A Multimedia Kit for Professional Development

From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning

Managing the Interactive Classroom: A Collection of Articles

Designing Professional Portfolios for Change

How to Assess Authentic Learning

What to Do With the Kid Who. . .: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline, and Responsibility in the Classroom

Portfolio Connection, 2nd Edition