Student-Engaged Assessment

Laura Greenstein is a lifelong educator having taught and assessed learners from preschool to graduate school across subject areas. Her passion for educational assessment is evident throughout her work as an author, blogger, consultant, and mentor to teachers and learners.Mary Ann Burke is the co-founder of the Generational Parenting Blog at www.genparenting.com and author/editor of eleven books, Mary Ann writes regularly on student-centered achievement. She has served as a credentialed parent educator, adjunct professor, and trainer at state and national education conferences and parent engagement events for over thirty years.

Laura Greenstein and Mary Ann Burke provide educators with an excellent resource to engage and empower students in the assessment process. Student-Engaged Assessment focuses on keeping the student at the center of engagement and showing educators the methods and means to make this a reality. The authors reinforce the idea that student engagement is key to not only personalizing learning goals, but also developing a meaningful, cogent action plan. This book centers students in the assessment process by not only asking learners what they think should be measured, but also incorporating them in the design of assessment tools and practices. Greenstein and Burke also build educator self-efficacy in this model by embedding self-reflection and documentation of mindsets across the text. The book builds the skillset of readers as they ask readers to think about and document learning process, products, and outcomes. The ability to document the reader’s thinking creates an ongoing dialogue with the authors and points made in the text.

• ForewordPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part 1Chapter 1: Foundations of success Chapter 2: The soar model Chapter 3: Touchstones of effective assessment Part 2Chapter 4: Assessment ready learners Chapter 5: Engaging students in assessment Chapter 6: Developing students as owners of assessment Chapter 7: When students become agents of assessment Part 3Chapter 8: partnering with parentsChapter 9: Conclusions and next stepsReferences About the authors