See the Simple Science of Standards-Based Test Writing with Education Expert Jay McTighe
Salt Lake City (PRWEB) November 14, 2013 -- School Improvement Network, the leader in educator effectiveness resources, today announced a webinar with education expert Jay McTighe showing how to use state standard-based test writing rubrics to align any test to new state standards. To help educators in this task, McTighe’s model gives a simple, replicable blueprint for creating standards-aligned assessments with the standards-based test writing rubric.
“Finding a way to map assessments to state standards is crucial in order to accurately measure the effectiveness of a state’s standards and students’ preparation towards college and career,” said Chet D. Linton, CEO and president of School Improvement Network. “As an expert on assessments, Jay McTighe’s standards-based test writing rubric is a valuable tool for all educators working to measure student achievement and the effectiveness of standards.”
Participants in McTighe’s webinar will get the following guides to help with standards-based test writing:
• Specific instructions and guidelines for creating performance assessment tasks
• Video interviews with teachers planning their own performance assessment tasks
• Video demonstrations of real classrooms successfully implementing standards-aligned tests
• Rubrics for grading, assessment, and a standards-based test writing rubric
The webinar will be held Thursday, December 5, at 3:00 pm EST.
About School Improvement Network
Founded in 1991 by teachers, School Improvement Network has spent decades researching and documenting the best practices and teaching strategies in education. From this research, School Improvement Network has developed the Educator Effectiveness System. This system delivers a process to improve teacher practice and teaching strategies and gives educators a set of powerful tools to drive the process. Research shows that districts and schools that use the tools in the Educator Effectiveness System produce better teachers and, as a result, experience dramatic increases in student achievement, driving up student proficiency scores by an average of 19 percent in a single year. School Improvement Network works with thousands of schools and districts in every state and around the world and has visited over 3,500 classrooms to document best practices and teaching strategies in action. Learn more at http://www.schoolimprovement.com.
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Abigail Shaha, School Improvement Network, 801-572-1153, [email protected]
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