Answers to Essential Questions about Standards, Assessments, Grading, & Reporting

The definitive guidebook to the complex terrain of 21st-century standards!

Standards, assessments, grading, and reporting provide the foundation for nearly every initiative in modern education reform. But what do these terms actually mean? This easy-to-use Q&A gives short, simple, jargon-free answers to the questions that frequently stymie educators. Readers will come away with:

• A consistent vocabulary and frame of reference to share with other educators
• An understanding of effective implementation in all four areas
• Specific ideas for purposeful action
• Common ground that teachers, leadership teams, schools, and districts can use as a basis for successful improvement efforts

Author: Thomas R. Guskey, Lee Ann Jung
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 11/21/2012
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781452235240

About the Author
Guskey, Thomas R.: - Thomas R. Guskey, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he began his career in education as a middle school teacher, served as an administrator in Chicago Public Schools, and was the first Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, a national educational research center. He is the author/editor of 18 books and over 200 articles published in prominent research journals as well as Educational Leadership, Kappan, and School Administrator. Dr. Guskey served on the Policy Research Team of the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future, on the Task Force to develop the National Standards for Staff Development, and recently was named a Fellow in the American Educational Research Association, which also honored him in 2006 for his outstanding contribution relating research to practice. His most recent books include Developing Standards-Based Report Cards (2010), Practical Solutions for Serious Problems in Standards-Based Grading (Ed.) (2009), The Principal as Assessment Leader (Ed.) (2009), The Teacher as Assessment Leader (Ed.) (2009), and Benjamin S. Bloom: Portraits of an Educator (Ed.) (2006).Jung, Lee Ann: - LEE ANN JUNG is associate professor of special education at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Jung is a graduate of Auburn University and has worked in the field of special education since 1994 as a teacher, administrator, consultant, and researcher. She is a national presenter on topics of family involvement, inclusion, IEP/IFSP development, and grading and reporting progress of exceptional learners. She has authored more than 30 journal articles and book chapters and has received in excess of $3 million in funding to support personnel preparation and research. She is an editorial board member for three special education journals and has served as guest editor for Topics in Early Childhood Special Education. Dr. Jung was named "Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher" at the University of Kentucky in 2002. She serves on the governor-appointed council that advises Kentucky's Cabinet for Health and Family Services on matters of providing special education services to young children.