Five Keys to Writing Effective Classroom Assessments from Education Expert Jay McTighe
Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) February 06, 2014 -- School Improvement Network, the leader in educator effectiveness resources, today released a new video segment showing five key principles of effective classroom assessments from education expert Jay McTighe. The video segment is available to all educators as part of “Strategy of the Week,” a weekly publication with teaching strategies to increase student success and educator effectiveness.
“Creating effective classroom assessments is essential for educators to accurately measure student learning and help 100 percent of students progress towards college and career readiness,” said Chet D. Linton, CEO and president of School Improvement Network. “Jay McTighe’s insights give educators readily applicable knowledge and principles that can help them make effective classroom assessments to measure their learning objectives and help students make meaningful growth.”
In the new video segment, educators learn about McTighe’s five principles to create effective classroom assessments, including the following:
• Ensure that assessments serve learning
• Use multiple measures
• Align assessments to goals
• Measure what matters
• Ensure that assessments are fair and equitable
Educators can also learn more about keys to effective classroom assessments from Jay McTighe’s LumiBook, “Core Learning: Assessing What Matters Most.”
Click here to see the video segment on five principles of effective classroom assessments.
Click here to see a webinar recording with Jay McTighe on creating effective classroom assessments.
About School Improvement Network
Founded in 1991 by teachers, School Improvement Network has spent decades researching and documenting the best practices in education. From this research, School Improvement Network has developed the Educator Effectiveness System. This system delivers a process to improve teacher practice 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 by an average of 18 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 in action. Learn more at http://www.schoolimprovement.com.
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