Assessment, Evaluation & Documentation

Assessing Student Learning: From Grading to Understanding

Featuring contributions from some of today's leading educators, this resource provides a range of practical processes for collaboratively examining student work, including writing samples, visual work, portfolios, and exhibitions. The text presents vivid descriptions of teachers engaged in collaborative processes in actual school settings, from early elementary through high school. Reporting on the work of several of the most important school change networks and institutes, and incorporating the perspectives of education researchers, teacher educators, administrators, and teachers, this volume builds a powerful argument for refocusing professional development on the collaborative and reflective examination of authentic student work, rather than on test scores and grades, as representations of student learning. ISBN: 978-0807737538

Project Spectrum: Project Zero Frameworks for Early Childhood Education, Volume 2

This curriculum resource will enable teachers in the early primary years to apply multiple intelligences theory in their own classrooms. It provides enriching activities in a wide variety of disciplines, including mechanics and construction, movement, and music. ISBN: 978-0807737675

Project Spectrum: Project Zero Frameworks for Early Childhood Education, Volume 3

This handbook provides the critical means to assess children's cognitive development in the classroom. Included are observation sheets for each of the expanded multiple intelligences and an activities calendar to help teachers to build multiple intelligences theory into their daily classroom routines. 1998, ISBN: 978-0807737682

Teaching through Projects: Creating Effective Learning Environments

The ideas in Teaching through Projects can be used in grades 3-6 for both classroom and out-of-school programs. Projects can make learning meaningful to students lives in ways that subject-by-subject teaching cannot and can motivate students to take charge of their own learning. Teaching through Projects helps teachers become coaches and mentors by setting up a model for integrated learning. You'll find successful projects, teaching strategies, and project design to increase students interest and motivation while meeting curriculum demands. The approach will help your students develop literacy and thinking skills by building on a wide variety of activities and interests. 1996, ISBN: 978-0201495072

Arts PROPEL: A Handbook for Imaginative Writing

In the Arts PROPEL approach to instruction and assessment, students write poems, and tackle other real-life projects as the starting point for exploring the works of practicing artists. Prepared by Project Zero and the Educational Testing Service with the help of teachers and administrators from the Pittsburgh Public Schools. The Arts PROPEL handbooks, An Introductory Handbook, A Handbook for Imaginative Writing, A Handbook for Music, and A Handbook for Visual Arts, offer guidelines and models for creating a project-based curriculum and using portfolios to assess student work in the arts.