The Authentic Standards-Based Environment

Why are standards so important, and how do they improve student learning? In The Authentic Standards-Based Environment: A Systematic Approach to Learning Targets, Assessment, and Data, Eileen Depka dives into standards-based student learning with a simple, easy-to-use approach to unpacking standards, developing learning targets, and designing rubrics and assessments. Using data-driven methods and clear examples, this book makes a standards-based process manageable.

K–12 teachers and administrators will:

Learn to unpack standards and understand the components and expectations rooted in them
Understand how to design standards-based learning targets that directly connect to each component of the standard
Design individual and common assessments that link with the rigor and expectations of the standard
Report data and design a scope and sequence that will guide next steps
Discover how to implement a standards-based system school- or districtwide

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: The Foundation

Chapter 1: Unpacking Standards—Why and How

Chapter 2: Designing Standards-Based Learning Targets

Part 2: Tools and Analysis

Chapter 3: Creating Standards-Based Assessments

Chapter 4: Creating Standards-Based Rubrics

Chapter 5: Implementing Common Assessments to Ensure Comparable Data

Chapter 6: Using Unpacked Standards to Report Data and Create a Scope and Sequence

Part 3: Embedding the Process

Chapter 7: Implementing the Process School- or Districtwide

References and Resources

Index