Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom
Carol Ann Tomlinson is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education. Carol Ann Tomlinson and Tonya R. Moon is the authors of Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom.
Carol Ann Tomlinson and Tonya R. Moon examine assessment in depth and demonstrate how differentiation can improve the process across all grade levels and subject areas. Following a basic discussion of differentiation, the authors concentrate on how differentiation applies to several modes of assessment—pre-assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment—as well as grading and report cards. Readers learn how differentiation can:
- Increase student motivation and interest
- Help teachers understand what is most important to teach.
- Increase students' and teachers' conviction in students' ability to learn; and
- Assist teachers in better understanding their students' individual similarities and differences, allowing them to reach more children more effectively.
- Throughout, Tomlinson and Moon stress the need of maintaining a consistent focus on the basic knowledge, understandings, and skills that all students, regardless of starting place, must master.
Detailed scenarios show how assessment differentiation can occur in three domains (student preparation, interest, and learning style or preference), how it can increase assessment validity and reliability, and how it can reduce errors and teacher bias.
Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom, based on research and the authors' teaching experience, provides a common-sense approach that is both intelligent and practical, empowering instructors and students to find, strive for, and reach their full potential. The book is one of the best books on educational assessment.
Author: Carol Ann Tomlinson and Tonya R. Moon
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