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Creating Credible Criteria

By Sherry Bennett and Anne Mulgrew

Criteria, when they are credible, assist teachers in designing assessments that will yield valid and reliable evidence and, at the same time, support student learning. Criteria, in essence, form the thread linking curriculum, instruction and assessment. The process of creating credible criteria is a professional responsibility, requiring a deep understanding of curriculum. Creating Credible Criteria models the art of creating credible criteria with the Alberta Context.

Explore the AAC publication through a four module book study.

Building Better Rubrics

By Sherry Bennett and Anne Mulgrew

This practical ‘how to’ book takes the mystery out of rubric design. Well designed rubrics have the potential to not only document the results of student performance, but to actually facilitate improved student learning. Building Better Rubrics provides a framework for recognizing quality rubrics and practical tools to support new and experienced developers alike.

Explore the AAC publication through a four module book study.

Scaffolding for Student Success

By Sherry Bennett and Anne Mulgrew

What do we do when students don’t understand? We scaffold to support student learning. Scaffolding for Student Success is a new Alberta Assessment Consortium professional resource that provides a variety of effective tools to scaffold student learning. The tools model how cognitive skills can be broken down or unpacked within the Alberta curricular context. Designed around self-reflection and peer coaching processes, these practical tools help teachers put the theory of assessment for learning into practice.

Explore the publication through the use of Scaffolding Tools

What Matters Most about Assessment

By Sherry Bennett, Pat Lore and Anne Mulgrew

This handy flip book is a valuable reference guide to key principles of sound classroom assessment practice. When used in conjunction with the new AAC ‘Go’ page, www.aac.ab.ca/go, teachers can access resource listings for a variety of videos, professional learning materials, and samples of assessment tasks and techniques.

Written from an Alberta perspective, this book provides practical support for meeting professional standards relative to instruction and assessment.

Assessment Conversations: Engaging with Colleagues to Support Student Learning

By Sherry Bennett, Pat Lore and Anne Mulgrew

This new AAC resource has been ‘made for Alberta’. It is a practical resource that every system leader, school leader and teacher can turn to for background information, answers to perplexing assessment questions, and concrete ideas for moving assessment practice forward in classrooms, schools and jurisdictions.

This publication has been written with the new professional practice standards in mind. Consider this newest AAC resource to be an integral part of planning for implementation of the new standards – for teachers, school leaders and system leaders.