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Understanding by Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Understanding by Design

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: ASCD

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded the...

Assessing Student Performance
  • Language: en

Assessing Student Performance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-09-21
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  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Now in paperback! "The most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise available on the imperative to change the ways we test and assess student performance...it will become a major reference work for supporters of student-centered assessment." --Educational Leadership "A 'must' book for the on-going debate on American school reform." --Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools What is assessment and how does testing differ from it? Why are performance tests, by themselves, not an adequate system of student assessment? How might we better "test our tests" beyond current technical standards? And why won't increased national testing offer the accountability of schools we so sorely...

Assessing Student Performance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Assessing Student Performance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993-11-12
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  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

What is assessment and how does testing differ from it? Why will a move to performance tests, by itself, not provide us with an adequate system of student assessment? How might we better "test our tests" beyond the technical standards that now apply? And why won't increased national testing offer us the accountability of schools we so sorely need? In this book, Grant P. Wiggins clarifies the limits of testing in an assessment system. Beginning with the premise that student assessment should improve performance, not just audit it, Wiggins analyzes some time-honored but morally and intellectually problematic practices in test design, such as the use of secrecy, distracters, scoring on a curve,...

Educative Assessment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Educative Assessment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-03-30
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  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Examines the elements of educative, or learning-centered, assessment; presents a logical order and criteria for considering assessment design elements; and looks at the implications of the design work.

Schooling by Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

Schooling by Design

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: ASCD

Based on: Schooling by design / Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-03-11
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  • Publisher: ASCD

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units offers instructional modules on the basic concepts and elements of Understanding by Design (UbD), the "backward design" approach used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students' understanding of important ideas. The eight modules are organized around the UbD Template Version 2.0 and feature components similar to what is typically provided in a UbD design workshop, including— * Discussion and explanation of key ideas in the module; * Guiding exercises, worksheets, and design tips; * Examples of unit designs; * Review criteria with prompts for self-assessment; and * A ...

Essential Questions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Essential Questions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: ASCD

This book from the authors of Understanding by Design explores how to design and frame essential questions that prompt students to think deeply and create a more stimulating environment for learning.

Schooling by Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Schooling by Design

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: ASCD

The authors of Understanding by Design share a compelling strategy for creating schools that truly fulfill the central mission of education: to help students become "thoughtful, productive, and accomplished at worthy tasks."

Schooling by Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Schooling by Design

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: ASCD

The authors of Understanding by Design share a compelling strategy for creating schools that truly fulfill the central mission of education: to help students become "thoughtful, productive, and accomplished at worthy tasks."

Schooling by Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Schooling by Design

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Understanding by Design authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe describe how to start with your school’s mission and goals and develop a powerful school improvement plan focused on desired results. Learn how to use UbD’s backward-design process to determine the evidence for your plan’s success and to plan improvement steps in instruction and leadership roles. Get dozens of action ideas for starting the school improvement process and keeping it going, plus samples of curriculum frameworks and assessment rubrics, and a three-stage school improvement planning process with specifi c tactics for each stage.