Complete list of professional development resources
Books
Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning
by Jan Chappuis
This practical new book organizes research-based recommendations about classroom assessment practices around three formative assessment questions: “Where am I going?”; “Where am I now?”; and “How can I close the gap?” The framework is sequenced so that you can easily weave assessment for learning practices into daily teaching and assessment activities.
The Seven Strategies are organized around the three big questions:
Where Am I Going?
Strategy 1: Provide a clear and understandable vision of the learning target.
Strategy 2: Use examples and models of strong and weak work.
Where Am I Now?
Strategy 3: Offer regular descriptive feedback
Strategy 4: Teach students to self-assess and set goals.
How Can I Close the Gap?
Strategy 5: Design lessons to focus on one aspect of quality at a time.
Strategy 6: Teach students focused revision.
Strategy 7: Engage students in self-reflection and let them keep track of and share their learning
Price: $34.00
$25.00
Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right – Using it Well (CASL)
by Rick Stiggins, Judy Arter, Jan Chappuis, and Steve Chappuis
This essential book on assessment for learning is grounded in research that shows how student motivation and learning can improve with student-involved classroom assessment. This combination text and workshop features:
- A user-friendly format
- Practical examples and expanded information about assessment for learning in everyday instruction
- Hands-on practice for learning teams
- Accompanying CD-ROM and DVD that contain additional resources and video segments
$40.00
Learning Team Facilitator Handbook
by Jan Chappuis
This new edition of Learning Team Facilitator Handbook helps learning teams get started and keeps them going without relying on outside presenters. The contents help teachers and school leaders to plan, lead, and manage the learning experience. All the resources a team needs for self-guided, sustaining study, and collaborative learning are now available in one place.
The book includes:
- An explanation of the planning decisions necessary for a successful learning team experience
- Resources to conduct, track, and share their learning and its impact on their students’ progress
- Detailed information about each chapter in Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right – Using it Well (CASL) and guidance for each meeting
- A DVD that introduces the content of the CASL program and provides a framework for reading each chapter of the book
$15.00
Assessment for Learning: An Action Guide for School Leaders. 2nd ed.
by Steve Chappuis, Rick Stiggins, Judy Arter, and Jan Chappuis
School leaders gain a clear vision of excellence and what it takes to achieve it. This book identifies the specific competencies needed to support assessment for learning and provides activities and resources to help leaders learn and supply these skills. Rick Stiggins’ DVD presentation, New Mission, New Beliefs: Assessment for Learning, and a CD-ROM with more than 30 individual and group activities, teaching resources, and planning tools are included. They’re written for use in individual or group study.
Price: $39.00
$20.00
A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades
by Ken O’Connor former Curriculum Coordinator with Toronto District School Board
Classroom teachers and school/district leaders gain an understanding of the issues involved in implementing sound grading practices. The “fixes” for broken grades described in this book address four categories that encompass common grading challenges:
- Distorted achievement
- Low-quality or poorly organized evidence
- Inappropriate grade calculation
- The inappropriate use of formative versus summative assessment information to determine grades
This book also provides practical strategies and alternatives to help change how students are graded. Ken O’Connor, a former Curriculum Coordinator with the Toronto District School Board, has extensive experience working with educators across Canada.
Price:$20.00
Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics
by Judy Arter and Jan Chappuis
This book helps teachers learn to choose or develop sound instructional rubrics and to use rubrics effectively with students to maximize learning. An accompanying CD-ROM contains 25 sample rubrics. The book is recommended for use with the companion training video, Designing Performance Assessments for Learning.
Price: $34.00
$20.00
Interactive Training DVDs
Grading and Reporting in Standards-Based Schools
presented by Rick Stiggins and Ken O’Connor
This interactive presentation and companion book provide classroom teachers and school/district leaders with a deeper understanding of issues involved in report card grading, as well as practical strategies and alternatives to help improve classroom grading practices.
Comes bundled with the book, A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades by Ken O’Connor.
75 minutes. DVD with User’s Guides on CD.
Price:$99.00
Designing Performance Assessments for Learning
presented by Judy Arter and Jan Chappuis
Performance assessment is more than a way to collect information on student progress toward important learning outcomes. It can increase the learning it assesses, as long as it’s well-designed and properly used. This video describes what’s required for performance task and rubrics to ensure accuracy and effectiveness.
Comes bundled with the book, Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics.
75 minutes. DVD with User’s Guide on CD.
Price: $198.00
$99.00
Assessment for Student Motivation
presented by Rick Stiggins
Rick Stiggins explains how behaviour management (manipulation of rewards and punishments) defined the relationship between assessment and student motivation for decades – and why this model no longer applies. The presentation provides schools a vision of assessment and an understanding of the relationship between classroom assessment for learning and student motivation to learn.
45 minutes: DVD with User’s Guide on CD.
Price: $198.00
$99.00
Evaluating Assessment Quality: Hands-On Practice
presented by Rick Stiggins and Judy Arter
This video presents standards of assessment quality and then turns them into checklists of key features and rubrics that any teacher can use to evaluate his or her own classroom assessments. Materials for hands-on practice using checklists and rubrics are included.
36 minutes. DVD with User’s Guide on CD.
Price: $198.00
$99.00
Assessing Reasoning in the Classroom
presented by Rick Stiggins
Learn practical, effective ways to use assessments to teach reasoning and help students succeed at problem solving.
68 minutes. DVD with User’s Guide on CD.
Price: $198.00
$99.00
Commonsense Paper and Pencil Assessments
presented by Rick Stiggins
Learn how to use paper-and-pencil tests to build student motivation and achievement. This presentation provides effective strategies for designing better paper-and-pencil tests and involving students in test development.
56 minutes. DVD with User’s Guide on CD.
Price: $198.00
$99.00
Student-Involved Conferences
presented by Anne Davies and Rick Stiggins
This video workshop presents effective ways to involve and prepare students, as well as keys to productive, student-involved conferences. Dr. Anne Davies from Courtenay British Columbia is a noted expert in the field of assessment for learning.
60 minutes. DVD with User’s Guide on CD.
Price: $198.00
$99.00
Professional Development Package
This comprehensive package gives professional development specialists, school learning teams, and curriculum libraries everything they need to plan and facilitate professional development in the use of quality assessment to improve student achievement for classroom teachers.
The Professional Development Package includes:
Books
All six core titles:
- Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right – Using it Well (CASL)
- New! Learning Team Facilitator Handbook with DVD
- Assessment FOR Learning: An Action Guide for School Leaders
- A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades
- Understanding School Assessment: A Parent and Community Guide to Helping Students Learn
- Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics
Interactive Training DVDs
A complete package of seven DVDs with User’s Guides on CD:
- Grading and Reporting in Standards-Based Schools
- Designing Performance Assessments for Learning
- Assessment for Student Motivation
- Evaluating Assessment Quality: Hands-On Practice
- Assessing Reasoning in the Classroom
- Commonsense Paper and Pencil Assessments
- Student-Involved Conferences
New Mission, New Beliefs: Assessment for Learning
A DVD featuring Rick Stiggins presenting an overview of:
- The history of in-school assessment
- Changing expectations for assessment
- Why quality classroom assessment is essential for student success – and research that provides it
Total price for the Professional Development Package $1074. If purchased separately, these items would cost $1610, or a savings of $536!
Price: $1,074.00
$750.00
