Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning

This hands-on book provides the practical tools that educators need to implement these ideas, including:

• Classroom activities
• Sample rubrics
• Forms, portfolios, questions, and checklists
• Examples of student work

Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning offers a more balanced and complete evaluation method that includes classroom-based assessments that complement state-based assessments. Authors Costa and Kallick illustrate the means to develop and cultivate the intellectual dispositions of self-evaluation and self-correction in all students.

Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D., is Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento, and co-founder of the Institute for Intelligent Behavior in El Dorado Hills, California. He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, an assistant superinten­dent for instruction, and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made pre­sentations and conducted workshops in all fifty states as well as Mexico, Central and South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the islands of the South Pacific. Dr. Costa has written numerous books, including Techniques for Teaching Thinking (with Larry Lowery), The School as a Home for the Mind, and Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools (with Robert Garmston). He is editor of Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, coeditor (with Rosemarie Liebmann) of the Process as Content Trilogy: Envisioning Process as Content, Supporting the Spirit of Learning, and The Process Centered School. Active in many professional organizations, he served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the National President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1988 to 1989.

Bena Kallick, Ph.D., is a private consultant providing services to school districts, state departments of education, professional organizations, and public sector agencies throughout the United States. She received her doctorate in educational evaluation from Union Graduate School. Her areas of focus include group dynamics, creative and critical think­ing, andalternative assessment strategies in the classroom. Formerly a Teachers' Center Director, she also created a children's museum based on problem solving and invention. Dr. Kallick was the coordinator of a high school alternative designed for at-risk students. Her written work includes "Literature to Think About" (a whole-language curriculum published with Weston Woods Studios), Changing Schools Into Communities for Thinking, North Dakota Study Group, University of North Dakota. She is cofounder of Technology Pathways, a company designed to facilitate teachers' networks and communications about curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Her teaching appointments have included Yale University School of Organization and Management, University of Massachusetts Center for Creative and Critical Thinking, and Union Graduate School. She was on the boards for JOBS for the Future and the Apple Foundation.