TY - BOOK AU - Almeida,Lisa AU - Besser,Laura TI - Standards and assessment: the core of quality instruction SN - 9781935588030 (alk. paper) AV - LB 3051 S785 2011 U1 - 371.26 PY - 2011/// CY - Englewood, Colo. PB - Lead + Learn Press KW - Academic achievement KW - United States KW - Testing KW - Education KW - Evaluation KW - Pruebas de rendimiento KW - Rendimiento académico KW - Primera Jornada de Catalogación N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Standards provide learning targets for students and the result of assessments help make data-driven instructional decisions. In this anthology education experts address the following topics in the context of impacting student learning performance assessments frequent assessments in mathematics connecting science standards and assessments common formative assessments for English language learners standards and assessments contexts and applications assessments for literacy learning disciplinary literacy and deep understanding effective grading practices assessing ER -