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Rehumanizing Assessment
Gathering Evidence of Student Learning Through Storytelling
This book champions narrative-based approaches to boost student engagement and creativity. It explores how to use storytelling to craft meaningful assessments, weaving together research, practical classroom strategies, and diverse cultural perspectives.
Transforming assessment through storytelling
Discover the transformative power of storytelling in assessment and student learning. Drawing on culturally responsive practices, this approach fosters innovation, self-reflection, and student engagement. Through narrative-based strategies, educators can elevate formative and summative assessments, promoting authentic, competency-based learning; meaningful growth; and deeper connections to critical competencies, as well as cultural archetypes. This guide helps educators reimagine assessment in diverse, student-centered classrooms.
K–12 teachers can use this book to:
- Revitalize assessment to encourage students’ growth as critical, creative thinkers
- Elevate student engagement through creative responses and personal reflections
- Employ elements of narrative structure to explore and hone student competencies
- Cultivate student agency and innovation in contemplating and expressing knowledge
- Create opportunities for students to find personal meaning in their learning experiences
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“This book reminds us that assessment should start with students at the center. It reimagines performance assessments as more than just scores—turning them into rich narratives that reflect student thinking and growth. Practical, insightful, and relevant, this is a must-read for educators and school leaders who want to make assessment more meaningful.”
“Schimmer and Vardabasso emphasize that there is a student connected to every assessment decision. Full of strategies to elevate student voice, this is a key resource to move assessment practices to the next level.”
