This is a core textbook designed to prepare literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessments and to help them develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their students.

A growing body of evidence suggests that many traditional grading practices are ineffective and potentially damaging. This book provides teachers with practical alternatives to traditional methods, and guiding questions to help them decide on the best practices for their schools.

Combined with new coverage on mental health, resilience, and mindset, Your College Experience speaks to the real needs of today's students, helping them overcome their barriers to success and become successful students in academic communities they can call their own.

By flipping the traditional "reading first, writing second" sequence, this innovative book lets teachers make the most of the writing-to-reading connection via 30 carefully matched lesson pairs.

This book aims to provide guidance on originality so that students can transform their work and achieve better grades.

Education measurement and evaluation expert W. James Popham critiques what is wrong with many existing teacher-evaluation systems and offers an alternate system that respects the professionalism and dignity of teachers.

Including a new section on evaluation accountability, this Third Edition details 30 standards which give advice to those interested in planning, implementing and using program evaluations.

This hands-on professional development guide provides concrete, proactive teacher evaluation strategies to help school leaders to build a supporting and collaborative school culture.

Delving into what really motivates students, this book will loosen and then break your classroom's dependence on the "A-through-F" grading system that does little more than silence student voices.

#FormativeTech shows how technology tools can energize teacher practice by providing easy ways to implement formative assessment every day in any K-12 classroom.