competency-based education

Provides an assessment system for districts, schools, and classrooms that uses continuous assessment, timely feedback, and clear goals to follow the progression of learning and includes learning progressions, on-demand writing prompts, student checklists and writing samples, rubrics, and exemplar pieces of writing.

[This book offers the] support students' abilities to be strategic, metacognitive writers who use particular processes to achieve particular purpose as writers. Also helps studetns learn to use writing as a tool for learning across the day and throughout their richly literate lives -- p. 4.

"This book offers an assessment system that can be used across a district, school or classroom. Three intertwined Pre-K-6 learning progressions, one each in opinion, information, and narrative writing, are at the center of this systems. These learning progressions are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and to our knowledge of the teaching or writing, and they have been piloted, in conjunction with the other tools in this system, in tens of thousands of classrooms."--Page 2.

[This book] represents about six weeks of teaching, and within those six weeks, the unit supports several cycles of drafting, revision, and publication. The units align with the three types of writing specified in the Common Core State Standards -- p. 4.

Provides educators with a step-by-step guide for developing assessments, tasks, and rubrics designed to help improve students' performance; includes templates, organizers, evaluation tools, and practical suggestions.

Explains how teachers can create a performance-based social studies curriculum in which students learn how to select, interpret, use, and share selected information.

Explains how teachers can balance basic instruction with performance-based learning and assessment, using performance tasks, benchmarks, assessment lists, rubrics, and portfolios.