Education Booklists

Grades: K-12.
This book synthesizes research on self-assessment and translates it into actionable guidelines and principles for pre-service and in-service teachers and for school leaders, teacher educators, and researchers.The authors explore self-assessment’s complexities and substantial promise to strategically move students toward self-regulated learning and internalized goals. (E-book only.)

Grades: K-12
The authors describe ways for teachers to create more involved students by including them in the assessment of their own work. The book provides ten self-assessment activities for students and details how to introduce the purpose of the activities to students, implement the activities, and provide different opportunities for practice. How to make goal setting a logical extension of self-assessment is also explored.

Grades: 6-9
What do you say to a young person who tells you her brain is an eighth full? Or to the one who says he only knows he has learned something when he receives a stamp or a sticker? This book is about how learners conceptualize learning, how they self-assess their own learning and why context matters. It shows how, just as a chameleon changes colour, learners change and adapt their approach to learning depending on the situation.

Grades: K-12
This book focuses on students’ self-assessment of their written work, including the type of criteria that can be used for assessment in different genres of writing. The author also explores the links between self-assessment in writing and self-assessment in other areas of the curriculum.

Grades: K-12
This book focuses on a range of non-traditional ways in which teachers (and others) can assess students and school programs, including a chapter dedicated to student self-assessment.

Grades: K-6
The authors encourage teachers and parents to reflect on their own ideas about education and to encourage greater self-assessment by students through deeper engagement with meaningful learning in classrooms. They describe a variety of possible activities to provoke students’ review of their own work, analyses of their motivation, appraisal of their learning strategies, and collaboration with others.

Grades: 8-12
This book shows teachers how to teach students to articulate a purpose for their writing, formulate questions for feedback, provide constructive comments to their peers, and incorporate the critiques of their peers into their writing. It offers clear, step-by-step tips for implementing the peer coaching process, as well as ideas for using peer coaching across content areas.

Grades: 7-12
Peer feedback gives students control over their learning, and increases their engagement and self-awareness as learners. This book will help teachers establish a respectful, student-led learning environment that supports risk taking and honest sharing, and teach students to be adept peer strategists who can pinpoint areas of needed growth and move forward with specific strategies for improvement. (E-book only)

Grades: K-12
Peer learning allows a positive use of differences between pupils, turning them into learning opportunities. This book will help practitioners establish well-structured and effective peer learning projects using a variety of methods. It introduces and defines cooperative learning (mutual peer interaction) and peer tutoring (directional peer interaction) – outlining general organizational principles that will help practitioners implement peer learning in either of these forms. (E-book only)

Grades: 6-12
The authors present a comprehensive survey of the research on peer response in second language writing instruction. They provide teachers with practical guidelines for making peer response effective in the classroom and offer a theoretical grounding on the purposes and importance of peer review, or feedback, as it relates to current writing instruction pedagogy.

Grades: K-6
This book explores using feedback to help students become better learners, examines the crucial use of verbal and nonverbal language to engage and guide students, and shows strategies and activities to establish and promote effective feedback within the classroom. It explores all types of feedback: from teacher to student, between students, and from student to teacher.

Student-led peer review can be a powerful learning experience for both giver and receiver, developing evaluative judgment, critical thinking, and collaborative skills that are highly transferable across disciplines and professions. Its success depends on purposeful planning and scaffolding to promote student ownership of the process. With intentional and consistent implementation, peer review can engage students in course content and promote deep learning, while also increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of faculty assessment. Based on the authors' extensive experience and research, this book provides a practical introduction to the key principles, steps, and strategies to implement student peer review - sometimes referred to as "peer critique" or "workshopping". It addresses common challenges that faculty and students encounter. The authors offer an easy-to-follow and rigorously tested three-part protocol to use before, during, and after a peer review session, and advice on adapting each step to individual courses. The process is applicable across all disciplines, content types, and modalities, face-to-face and online, synchronous and asynchronous. Instructors can guide students in peer review in one course, across two or more courses that are team-taught, or across programs or curriculums. When instructors, students, and university stakeholders create a culture of peer review, it enhances learning benefits for students and allows faculty to share pedagogical resources. Student peer review is a high-impact pedagogy that's easily implemented, inculcates lifelong learning skills in students, and relieves the assessment burden on faculty as students collaborate to improve their own work.

Covering both higher education and school education, this book contributes to the field of assessment by providing a systematic account of student self-assessment based on a consistent conceptualisation. Yan advocates viewing self-assessment as an active and reflective process and using it as a learning strategy rather than an assessment method. He builds on a newly-developed self-assessment model adopting a process perspective and synthesises a series of interrelated empirical investigations into the whole "chain" of student self-assessment research. The research encompassed in the volume spans from self-assessment practices and measurement, through predictors of self-assessment, its interweaved relationship with self-regulated learning and feedback literacy, impact on student learning outcomes, to designing sustainable self-assessment interventions. The empirical evidence is from a wide range of current scholarship to ensure that the principles and implications conveyed are applicable internationally. Policymakers, students and scholars in educational assessment, educational psychology, and teaching and instruction will find the theoretical explorations and empirical investigations contained within useful, to show how student self-assessment could be better conceptualised, researched, and practised.

Increase the achievement of every learner with Student Self-Assessment. In this practical guide, author Katie White outlines how to plan and implement various self-assessment strategies to ensure student growth at all grade levels. She covers every stage of the process--from setup to goal setting to celebrating. In each chapter, you'll find helpful step-by-step guidelines as well as questions to guide conversation and reflection throughout the journey. Understand how self-assessment skills benefit students now and in the future. Learn how to set up a self-assessment process and document learning. Train students to analyze and reflect on their own performance. Set strong, achievable goals in order to motivate students to realize their potential. Celebrate successes and continue to engage students with self-assessment. Contents: Introduction: Embracing Student Self-Assessment Chapter 1: Making a Compelling Case for Student-Self-Assessment Chapter 2: Setting Up a Self-Assessment Process and Documenting Learning Chapter 3: Engaging in Analysis and Reflection Chapter 4: Imagining Possibilities and Setting Goals Chapter 5: Celebrating Growth Chapter 6: Examining Age, Security, Families, and Other Factors Epilogue Appendix: Sample Self-Assessment Sequence References and Resources Index