A Local Assessment Toolkit to Promote Deeper Learning: Transforming Research Into Practice

"Karin Hess has a gift. She understands the complex and technical world of assessment, but she is able to convey concepts, techniques, and strategies in a way that is clear, practical, and right on target for today’s schools and classrooms. Her central focus on transfer is operationalized in practices that depend upon and promote cognitive rigor, literacy, and student performance. This IS assessment for deeper learning. But her greater gift—and the one offered to teachers and instructional leaders so ably in this invaluable resource—is her richly developed ′toolkit′ of professional development modules. Karin Hess not only gives us the why but also the how and the what if around developing great assessment practices."

"Using Karin Hess′s tools and protocols ensured that our district curriculum, instruction, and assessments are rigorous and aligned with state standards. By having us focus on cognitive rigor and plan for challenging questions and tasks, we are better equipped to guide our students to challenging and higher cognitive levels. This also allows our students to transfer their thinking to non-routine situations. Thank you for guiding and supporting our vision!" 

Build assessments you can really use | Unlock the how, when, what, and why

Watch your system become greater than its parts by building local capacity through common language and deeper knowledge of assessment components. For years, educators have turned to the Hess Cognitive Rigor Matrices (CRM). Now for the first time, the modules are packaged into one resource to help you evaluate the quality and premise of your current assessment system. 
Designed as a professional development guide for long-term use by school leaders, five content-rich, topic-based modules:

• Offer field-tested, teacher-friendly strategies for local school test development
• Can be used for individual or professional development opportunities
• Allow for sequential or non-sequential use 

• | Author: Karin J. Hess
• | Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• | Publication Date: Aug 27, 2018
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781506393759
• | ISBN-10: 1506393756