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So What Do They Really Know?: Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning book cover

1st Edition

So What Do They Really Know? Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning

By Cris Tovani Copyright 2011
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
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So What Do They Really Know? Cris Tovani explores the complex issue of monitoring, assessing, and grading students' thinking and performance with fairness and fidelity. Like all teachers, Cris struggles to balance her student-centered instruction with school system mandates. Her recommendations are realistic and practical; she understands that what isn't manageable isn't sustainable. Cris... Read more
Chapter 1: Assessment: It Doesn't Have to Be the Enemy; Chapter 2: Let's Get Personal; Chapter 3: Game-Time Assessment; Chapter 4: Off the Field and Into the Classroom; Chapter 5: Annotations: A Trustworthy Source of Data; Chapter 6: Feedback That Fortifies; Chapter 7: Grading Is Killing Me; Coda: Break the Fake

Biography

Cris T Tovani taught elementary school for ten years before becoming a high school reading specialist and English teacher. In In addition to teaching full-time, full-time, she is a nationally known known consultant focusing on issues of reading and content comprehension in in the high school classroom. Cris has also worked for many years as a staff developer for the Denver-based-based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), the consortium that that has received national acclaim for its work in in r reading comprehension reform. She is the author of the book I Read It, It, but I don’t Get It (Stenhouse(Stenhouse 2000).

"Tovani provides an extensive list of formative assessment ideas so that teachers can gather a range of data and discover what their students really know." - Professionally Speaking
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