Design in Five

This second edition of the best-selling, award-winning Design in Five offers new and targeted information for reimagining assessment practices, as well as refined processes and protocols to fully engage learners. Refinements to the original five-phase protocol come from the actual experiences of teachers who have engaged with the process. This is the book you need to design and use assessment well.

This book will help K–12 teachers, administrators, and students of teacher preparation courses:

• Reflect on current assessment practices to determine their effectiveness
• Learn and implement a five-phase process to design meaningful, relevant assessments that lead to high levels of learning for all
• Align and design items and tasks to learning goals
• Design assessments that help students invest in their learning and take action to improve
• Access numerous reproducible surveys, charts, and sample assessments

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Defining the Design Process
Chapter 2: Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement
Chapter 3: Analyzing Standards and Constructing Learning Progressions
Chapter 4: Crafting an Assessment Plan
Chapter 5: Creating the Assessment and Gathering the Materials
Chapter 6: Determining Scoring Schemes and Student Investment Strategies
Chapter 7: Collaboratively Engaging in the Assessment Process
Epilogue: Building Hope
Appendix: Reproducibles
References and Resources
Index