EDAD 5100 Improving Student and Teacher Performance: Assessment in the Learning Organization
This course provides school leaders with a vision and an understanding of their role in assessing and improving teacher and student performance. Specific attention will be directed to principles behind authentic, performance-based assessment, skills in developing standards-based performance tasks, implications for curriculum planning and school improvement, and formal and informal techniques for collecting and analyzing student work and measuring teacher effectiveness. Students will work individually and in teams to analyze current teacher and student assessment practices, to create assessment tasks, to develop assessment guided programs, and to demonstrate understanding of differentiated teacher evaluation practices.