Assessment Balance and Quality: Action Gd 10-pk (Assessment Training Institute, Inc.) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rick Stiggins is retired founder of the Assessment Training Institute, Portland OR, a professional development company devoted to promoting assessment literacy at all levels of education. He holds a PhD in educational measurement from Michigan State (1972) and has served on the faculties of MSU, Minnesota, and Lewis and Clark College. Rick also directed test development at ACT in Iowa City and directed R&D programs at the Northwest Regional Educational Lab in Portland. He has devoted his career to understanding the task demands of classroom assessment and its links to teaching and learning. His professional development programs have help teachers and school leaders across the continent and around the world face the challenges of assessment with renewed confident and competence.

Dr. Carol Commodore is an independent consultant whose special interests center on leadership, assessment, motivation and learning. An educator for more than 30 years, she served as a classroom teacher, a department chair, an assistant superintendent, and an assessment coordinator. During her tenure as a district leader, she facilitated the establishment of new programs in the areas of foreign language and balanced assessment. Carol has coauthored two other books in the areas of assessment and leadership." "Carol presents and consults for local, state, national, and international organizations across North America, Asia, and the Middle East.