Proficiency-Based Assessment: Process, Not Product (Foundations of quality K-12 curriculum, instruction, and assessment and vocabulary relating to them) (Solutions)

Confront traditional, ineffective grading practices. With this user-friendly resource, K-12 teachers will discover how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments. Learn the essentials of proficiency-based assessment, investigate why this kind of assessment has a key relationship with teaching and learning, and explore evidence-based strategies for successful implementation.

Benefits:

• Follow a curriculum team's journey through the process of learning about and implementing proficiency-based assessment.
• Discover how the phases in the proficiency-based assessment implementation process relate to each other and how each is important.
• Build new, informed classroom outlooks by understanding the causes of learning gaps.
• Study the commitments, unexpected combinations, insights, decisions, and assertions related to proficiency-based assessment.
• Examine the types of assessment that teachers need to use and fully grasp in order to reach goals for student achievement and create harmonious assessment environments.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Beyond the Formative and Summative Divide
Chapter 2: Preparation
Chapter 3: Incubation
Chapter 4: Insight
Chapter 5: Evaluation
Chapter 6: Elaboration
Epilogue: Professional Learning as a Creative Process