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Acquire actionable steps you can take throughout the school year to alleviate student test anxiety and create brain-friendly classrooms full of focus and learning. Understand what causes testing anxiety and discover how to implement social-emotional learning strategies in the classroom to help prepare students mentally, emotionally, and physically for high-stakes assessments.

“The singular contribution of this book is shifting the focus of assessment from external audiences to students,” writes author and assessment expert Douglas Reeves in the foreword. Design in Five [Second Edition] inspires educators to rethink old ways of assessing student learning and empowers them to create meaningful, relevant assessments to ensure high levels of learning.

Discover ten key assessment design tools for K–12 educators and learn proven strategies for incorporating them into your practices.

This book provides teachers and administrators with practical suggestions for making the grading process more fair, accurate, specific, and timely.

Build a defensible body of evidence for every student. The IMPACT framework and the seven design principles of competency-based learning, as presented in this book, make this practical and doable for professional learning communities. This framework helps with clarifying learning expectations, planning assessments, and establishing protocols for proficient performance.

Drive student engagement, learning, and success using effective assessment strategies in the classroom. The second edition of Dylan Wiliam’s best-selling book presents new research, insights, and examples as well as updated classroom formative assessment strategies and techniques teachers can implement immediately.

This book is designed to focus on implementing, sustaining, and developing effective formative assessment techniques in K–12 classrooms. Teachers and leaders can gain five key strategies to ensure instructional decisions are made so that all students learn at high levels.

Explore six essential tenets of assessment that will help deepen your understanding of assessment to meet standards and enhance your students’ academic success.

Based on the latest assessment research, this book provides a practical and ethical approach to deepening students’ knowledge and ethically preparing them to demonstrate that knowledge on large-scale standardized tests.

Discover how to ensure schoolwide grading practices center on four essential criteria: fairness, accuracy, specificity, and timeliness.