Brain-Compatible Assessments

Teachers will learn to assess student achievement with rubrics that reflect the latest neuroscientific research and are compatible with standards and the principles of brain-compatible learning.

Real learning means the learner has the ability to apply learned skills to real-life contextual settings. But since `teaching to the test` is still the mandate in classrooms, Diane Ronis shows teachers how to use alternative assessment methods to move toward a more student-beneficial form of education. She leads readers through the complex issues of brain research, offers practical methods of implementation, outlines lesson plans using this approach, and demonstrates how to accurately assess students while maintaining rigorous standards and high-challenge levels.

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While "teaching to the test" is still the mandate in classrooms, Diane Ronis shows teachers how to use alternative assessment methods to move toward a more student-beneficial form of education.

Diane Ronis is a professor of education at Southern Connecticut State University and has a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction. Her drive to make learning meaningful to all students comes from 17 years of teaching middle school and high school mathematics and fine arts as well as eight years of experience instructing preservice teachers at the college and graduate level. Ronis has been a presenter and keynote speaker at numerous conferences, workshops and seminars, and is the author of Brain Compatible Mathematics, Brain Compatible Assessments, Critical Thinking in Math, Problem Based Learning for Math & Science: Integrating Inquiry and the Internet, and Clustering Standards in Integrated Units.