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Recommended Reading
Student Assessment That Works
by Ellen Weber
Allyn and Bacon, 1999
ISBN 0-205-28271-70
Ellen Weber, well known author, teacher, and currently a professor of education at Houghton College, has written a much-needed book that is especially useful for secondary school teachers, counselors, and administrators. It is also timely in suggesting practical, authentic instruments for assessment that drive educational systems to focus not just on the mastery of basic skills and facts, but on making sure that students can turn what they have learned into knowledge that they can apply.
Based largely on Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Weber's book illustrates how to help a variety of students identify and make use of their strengths, as well as extending their capacities. In the first section of the book, Weber explores the assessment roles of students, parents, and teachers, and offers suggestions for new, collaborative assessment practices.
She demonstrates how to incorporate these tools into classroom instruction, especially when it is based on active learning philosophies. High school teachers will find examples of progressive benchmark indicators, multiple measures and evaluations, ways to identify students' abilities and interests, and real life problems to use in project-based learning. (Also great ideas for term papers!) The feedback systems she suggests make it possible to guide learning and make it relevant to students. The last section of the book is focused on assessment activities that focus on collaborative and active learning practices that will richly equip teachers in all subject-matter areas, and will help students to learn more effectively.
Weber has filled the book with useful charts, diagrams, and forms that can be used immediately. She has also illustrated her suggestions through numerous anecdotes from her own varied and rich teaching experiences on the secondary and university level in Canada, the U.S., and the high Arctic where she worked with Inuit students. We highly recommend this book as one you will keep close at hand as you meet the challenges of standards-based instruction.
More about Ellen Weber:
Ellen Weber is Director of the MITA Brain Based Renewal Center in Rochester, NY. She is the author of
Student Assessment That Works, which is reviewed in New Horizons' Journal, and of MI Strategies in the Classroom and Beyond: Using Roundtable Learning. She is also author of the article Lessons from an Inuit Community on Baffin Island, and dozens of other articles on brain based renewal with practical strategies for secondary and college levels. Weber's upcoming book suggests parctical strategies to use MITA for Online learners.
Contact:
Ellen Weber (PhD)
MITA Brain Based Renewal Center
PO 347 Pittsford , NY 14534
Phone (585) 421-3656
email eweber1@frontiernet.net
http://www.mitaleadership.com
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