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“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.

With this practical, step-by-step guide, teachers and school administrators will uncover five components that help improve student achievement and decrease classroom problems.

Discover how teachers can become learning partners with their students. Help students develop enthusiasm for learning and employ deep learning goals.

This book summarizes key research behind designing and teaching learning goals and objectives and translates that research into step-by-step hands-on strategies.

Encourage creativity, communication, innovation, and collaboration in students by incorporating engineering design process thinking into existing classwork. Gain strategies for supporting engineering practices that foster creative problem-solving and critical thinking.

Learn how to proactively address your students’ diverse learning needs, using multitiered systems of support and response to intervention (RTI).

Explore six key arguments for why educators must approach schooling differently and learn how schools are tackling each argument head-on.

Understand current educational neuroscience research and gain differentiated instruction and brain-based learning strategies for teaching diverse learners.

Create positive change in your most challenging students with the help of proven, practical strategies found in this resource.