Rigor And Assessment In The Classroom: Instructional Strategies and Assessment

Learn how to create and use assessments that will help your students succeed. In Assessment from A to Z, bestselling author Barbara Blackburn lays out twenty-six practical strategies for getting the most out of your formative and summative assessments. Covering topics such as grading systems, effective feedback, differentiated tests, and more, this book shows teachers how to evaluate and check student learning more effectively to ensure growth. The book also comes with classroom-ready tools, offered in the book and on our website as free eResources.

Dr. Barbara Blackburn has dedicated her life to raising the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. What differentiates Barbara’s 13 books are her easily executable concrete examples based on decades of experience as a teacher, professor, and consultant. Barbara has taught early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students. She holds a master’s degree in school administration and received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teaching? from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2006, she received the award for Outstanding Junior Professor at Winthrop University. She now writes and speaks full-time. She regularly presents national and local workshops for educators in elementary, middle, and high schools.