Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning

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Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning

Arthur L. Costa - Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento, Institute for Intelligent Behavior, Co-founder
Bena Kallick - Vice President, Professional Development Services, Performance Pathways

Series:
Experts In Assessment Series

Other Titles in:
Student Assessment | Student Engagement & Motivation | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles

June 2014 | 192 pages | Corwin

A new volume for the Experts In Assessment series focusing on assessing students' abilities as self-directed learners. Self-directed learners are defined as self-managing, self-monitoring, and self-modifying. These three dispositions need to be assessed to determine if they are being internalized and habituated over time. Arthur L Costa and Bena Kallick use "triangulation" to ensure that the assessment system is balanced and complete. Assessment "triangulation" consists of knowledge, performance, and demonstration.

This book promises to gain a lot of interest and attention merely by the fact that it is authored by the Habits of Mind experts.

Series Editors' Introduction

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Why We Need Self-Directed Learners

2. The Intellectual Dispositions of Self-Directed Learners

3. Developing the Capacity for Self-Assessment

4. Assessing the Conditions for Self-Directed Learning

5. The Teacher's Role in Self-Directed Learning

6. Adapting the Assessment Strategies for Your School and Classroom

Afterword

Resource A: Some Quotes About Self-Direction

Resource B: Selected Resources to Support Self-Directed Learning

References

Index

"How much do students really love to learn, to persist, to passionately attach a problem or a task? ..to watch some of their prized ideas explode and to start anew? ...to go beyond being merely dutiful or long-winded? Let us assess such things."

Grant Wiggins

Grant Wiggins & Associates

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Sample Materials & Chapters

Series Introduction by Thomas R. Guskey and Robert J. Marzano

Preface

Chapter 1: Why We Need Self-Directed Learners

Arthur Lewis Costa

Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D., is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento. He is Co-Founder of the Institute for Habits of Mind and Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Coaching. He served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and an assistant superintendent for instruction in the Office of the Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as on six of the seven continents ... More About Author

Bena Kallick

Bena Kallick, Ph.D is a private consultant providing services to school districts, state departments of education, professional organizations, and public agencies throughout the United States and abroad. Kallick received her doctorate in educational evaluation at Union Graduate School. Her areas of focus include group dynamics, creative and critical thinking, and alternative assessment strategies for the classroom. Formerly a Teachers' Center director, Kallick also created a children's museum based on problem solving and invention. She was the coordinator of a high school alternative designed for at-risk students. She is... More About Author

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