This set includes:

• Common Formative Assessments by Larry Ainsworth and Donald Viegut

  Now you have powerful means to closely align curriculum, instruction, and assessment to the standards essential for student success. You will learn how teams of teachers in the same content area or grade level can collaboratively develop, test, and refine common formative assessments in order to gain reliable and timely feedback on student progress. The results provide teachers with critical insight into how well students are understanding the standards, what changes are needed in instructional strategies, and how to best meet the needs of every student!

• 101 Questions and Answers About Standards, Assessment, and Accountability by Douglas B. Reeves

  This easy-to-use reference book provides clear answers to commonly asked questions about the most pressing issues in education today. Standards and standardized tests, writing and student achievement, accountability systems, interventions for under-performing students, standards and the arts, motivation, leadership issues, plus many more topics are addressed in this handbook for educators. Dr. Reeves clearly articulates responses to questions he has received over the years during teacher workshops and national presentations, while facilitating K-12 accountability task force meetings and working with students in the classroom, and as the Test Doctor on the Internet. This book is a helpful reference for understanding the issues and improving communication among teachers, parents, students, and all stakeholders in school communities.

• 101 More Questions and Answers About Standards, Assessment, and Accountability by Douglas B. Reeves

  In the three years since the publication of the first volume of 101 Questions & Answers about Standards, Assessment, and Accountability, Dr. Reeves and The Leadership and Learning Center have continued to receive and respond to real-world questions from teachers, school leaders, parents, students, and educational researchers. Now, in the age of increased accountability and No Child Left Behind, Dr. Reeves offers this second collection of questions and answers that addresses a new set of issues affecting education today.

• Test Better, Teach Better by W. James Popham

  The right kinds of tests, correctly applied, can help every teacher become a better teacher. But unless you know the nuts and bolts of effective test design and application, you may be collecting the wrong data; misinterpreting data; and drawing off-base conclusions about what students know and can do, what to teach next, and how effective your instruction has been.

  In Test Better, Teach Better, assessment expert W. James Popham explores the links between assessment and instruction and provides a jargon-free look at classroom and large-scale test construction, interpretation, and application.

• Effective Grading Practices – Leadership and Learning Live, Volume 1, DVD 3 by Douglas B. Reeves

  In this session, Dr. Reeves presents a compelling case improvement of grading practices. He'll argue that school-wide implementation of a consistent and effective grading system will have an immediate impact on reducing failures and improving student achievement, teacher morale, student behavior, and parental engagement. In the DVD Dr. Reeves will lead interactive learning exercises: to teach the elements of effective grading, analyze common grading systems; experiment with alternative systems; create improved feedback strategies; and develop an implementation plan that participants can be immediately applied.