Differentiated Assessment Strategies (Multimedia kit): A Multimedia Kit for Professional Development

by Carolyn Chapman, Rita King

"Differentiated Assessment Strategies is a bible for assessment strategies that you will keep nearby for easy reference in planning and implementing classroom assessment. The use of this book will take away the mystery on how to guide and monitor students’ performances."
From the Foreword by Marti Richardson, NSDC Past President

Empower students to self-assess and improve performance with these ready-to-use assessment strategies and tools!

Do you have a full toolbox to gather ongoing assessment information to pinpoint student needs and plan instruction? Do you believe a student’s interests can leverage academic success? Would you like to help your students grow as reflective self-assessing thinkers? With this classroom-friendly guide, you’ll become a better teacher as you learn to assess students before, during, and after instruction.

Packed with tools, surveys, checklists, questionnaires, assignments, organizers, guidelines, and rubrics, Differentiated Assessment Strategies addresses informal as well as formal assessments, and assessments before, during, and after learning for learners of all types and levels, including K-12, special needs, and gifted students. In addition to application of the latest research, you’ll become skilled in novel assessment tools that provide immediate feedback. Chapman and King provide ready-to-use tools to:

Evaluate and activate students’ prior knowledge Transform homework into rich learning opportunities Draw higher order thinking from ALL students Assess learning to offer feedback to students Assess learner preferences, as well as cognitive styles and multiple intelligences Determine student comprehension and requirements for reteaching Build students' metacognitive power to self-assess their own learning

Use assessment strategies to build a positive learning culture and energize your students!

Genres: Education

Paperback

First published November 17, 2004

About the author

Carolyn M. Chapman

Reviews

[Virginia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the second of Chapman's books I've read, and I felt the same about it as I did the first: Chapman talks in big, important ideas, but then doesn't always give you practical information about how to make them work. There are some wonderful templates, handouts, etc. within the book, but I felt myself always wanting a bit more information. For example, if I need to "establish a positive learning climate", how exactly does Chapman recommend I go about that. There are just too many times when I feel like the author expects/assumes the reader will know certain information that maybe they really don't.

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too much information and poorly organized. Not very useful for an overwhelmed teacher as a result.

[Jim · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was a tremendous disappointment. Instead of providing suggestions for effective assessment strategies based on sound pedagogical theory, it contains bulleted lists, charts, tables, and other formulaic window dressing in the guise of differentiated assessment. Relying on cutesy slogans and excessive exclamation points, the list of “how-to’s” in this book might be suitable for elementary instruction or for beginning teachers with absolutely no knowledge of assessment. If you’re looking for ready-made reproducible checklists and doodles to adorn your teaching, look no further. If it’s rigorous and useful analysis of formative assessment strategies and comprehensible suggestions for their implementation in a secondary classroom that you’re seeking, look elsewhere.