Setting and Using Criteria is full of practical ways to help teachers involve students in their own assessment. This book will show teachers how to set criteria with students using a simple four-step strategy, then how to use these criteria for assessing learning. Included are:

• Classroom-tested ideas
• Cross curricular examples
• Ten assessment methods that keep students focused on criteria
• Responses to commonly asked questions
• Blackline masters

The authors provide five different classroom models for setting and using criteria, and show how these ideas are adaptable to any classroom setting.

For a comprehensive lesson plan on how to use this book in your next professional development session download the following conversation:

Learning to Set Criteria with Students (S&UC)

If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 or higher you can access and use the following fillable and printable Blackline Masters - valuable resources for both teachers and students to use in the classroom:

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